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Weapons are the tools of violence

By Patrick on April 26, 2014 ~ Leave a Comment
Weapons are the tools of violence

Meditations on Two Photographs The obscenity of war has many faces: Some face down and dead in awful places. Some, thumbs up and beaming like a boy In some dark death machine posed like a toy.

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Categories: Daoism, Play Nice, Poetry - Tags: compassion, Dao, death, enemies, fear, Laozi, Michael Leunig, peace, politics, Stephen Mitchell, violence, war, weapons

Karma is a bitch, but only when I am.

By Patrick on April 1, 2014 ~ Leave a Comment
Karma: no need for revenge. Just sit back and wait. Those who hurt you will screw up themselves. and if you're lucky, God will let you watch.

Cute, and a very common and popular thought, but… Karma doesn’t discriminate, unfortunately. Karma isn’t a mechanism for making the world right for me by punishing others. Wishing ill on others, even those I might feel richly deserve it for wronging me, has a tendency to draw Karma’s attention. When […]

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Categories: Play Nice - Tags: anger, karma, suffering

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Patrick created several blogs over the past couple decades. The most recent (and only active) one is Pix to Words, which features his own photographs as points of inspiration for writing, including short stories, travelogues, essays, poetry and other genres.

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