Mountain Life

Turning over new leaves

[Mountain Life @ZazenRichard]

The long and short of it :)
Another solution:
Wood always looks good in Japanese buildings!

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A paradox:
Social media has destroyed our ability to socially integrate our basic way of life?
After thousands of years we have lost our way

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Delta variant:
Looks like things are starting to get more deadly serious!
Time for global common sense to kick into gear!
Before we lose it!

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UK and the rush to do nothing:
Often we see this paradox at work in the British mindset
Decisions muddled!
Not being able to proceed calmly

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Tao and Covid-19
Changes in conditions must be navigated in way that allows things to be ambiguous:
Sometimes just letting things happen:

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Wu Wei and Covid-19
Flowing does not imply drifting
Actions we take can naturally move quickly like vaccine production:
Or slowly like masks

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Wu Wei: and Covid-19
If we imagine the virus as a river it helps us to understand how to flow with it:
Wu Wei is the art of the powerless

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UK seems to be on a very risky road to coexisting with the Delta strain!
Now is a common sense moment for wearing a face mask
Ping-time outs

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The soccer violence is all about empowerment of the disenfranchised
Pretty much the same as with Trumps MAGA boys:
It has validity of sorts

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UK: Soccer violence:
The important thing to note is:
From the 1960's to the 2020's
The same mindset is still being played out at matches!

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UK: Saturday Night "Punch-ups"
In the 1960's we had Mods and Rockers:
Gang fights outside the pubs:
It was another empowering experience?

[Mountain Life @ZazenRichard]

One good thing about learning to speak standard English:
It costs no money :)
You cannot fake being upperclass!
But you can slipstream them!

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My family thought me uppity little shit for trying to speak standard English! :)
However when I later went to Art School it was helpful lol!

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UK:
In the 1960's I realized that your accent was important!
So I started to study and copy the BBC news readers accents which were cool :)

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@Laura_S_Connor
Everything in GB is underpinned by the intersections of the class system:
You accent and vocabulary is a basic class index

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UK: Feudalism:
The dictionary definition perfectly describes the basics of the current situation within the UK
Class is cancer eating change

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Soccer violence in the UK:
I had classmates back in the 1960's who
were into the crowd violence at matches!
It was about being empowered!

[Mountain Life @ZazenRichard]

No more binary common senselessness:
Time for a flexible approach to balance personal freedom with self control:
It really is not so hard :)

[Mountain Life @ZazenRichard]

UK and Delta attack:
Time for Bojo to get his Mojo working:
Time to make common sense decisions
All public transport mask wearing is one!

[Mountain Life @ZazenRichard]

Dark patches of clouds with blue skies:
Raining with growls of thunder:
A summer storm in our valley:
It's hot and humid:
Wearing Jimbei :)