Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for October 07, 2024
Transcript:
All the world’s a stage WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE All the world’s a stage… …and all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrances… And one man in his time plays many parts, HIS ACTS BEING SEVEN AGES. At frist the INFANT, Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms. Then, the whining SCHOOL-BOY with his satchel… …and shining morning face… …creeping like snail… …unwillingly to school. And then the lover… …sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad… …made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then, a SOLDIER… …full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard… …jealous in honour… …sudden, and quick in quarrel… …seeking the bubble reputation… …even in the cannon’s mouth. And then, THE JUSTICE… …in fair round belly, with a good capon lined… …with eyes severe… …and beard of formal cut… …full of wise saws, and modern instances… SAVE OUR LAND STOP FRACKING …and so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts into the lean and slippered PANTALOON… …with spectacles on nose and pouch on side… …his youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide… …for his shrunk shank, and his big manly voice… …turning again toward childish treble, pipes and whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, that ends this strange eventful history… ZZZ …is second childishness and MERE OBLIVION… …sans teeth… …sans eyes… …sans taste… …sans EVERYTHING. As You Like It Act II, Scene VII
The Old Wolf 3 months ago
This one is hauntingly beautiful. The circle of life…
FreyjaRN Premium Member 3 months ago
Great illustration of what the Bard wrote.
Rich Douglas 3 months ago
Oh, I’ve got something inside me
To drive a princess blind
There’s a wild man wizard
He’s hiding in me, illuminating my mind
Oh, I’ve got something inside me
Not what my life’s about
‘Cause I’ve been letting my outside tide me
Over ’til my time (Over ’til my time) runs out
— Harry Chapin, “Taxi”
When I was entering the 6th Age I listened to this song very carefully, pulling this lyric and making it an inspiration for me. I spent the next two (my last two) years, while still working in an organization, designing my own consulting practice. I am still in that practice today. This has remarkably enriched and elongated my 6th Age and I am so much more happy because of it.
Durak Premium Member 3 months ago
His mother would be, is, proud.
DawnQuinn1 3 months ago
The tree is the only unchanging, everlasting constant … as it should be.
LAFITZGERALD 3 months ago
I wish the stone watchtower at the Harlow residence on Marmion Way in Rockport, Mass deserved this fate with our family’s sides – sigh!!
Vet Premium Member 3 months ago
We all play our part till the end.
Rocky Premium Member 3 months ago
Beautiful.