Photo: Philip Coons
Doors in corridors close
Even as others open
For the path no one sees
Goes around
Half again
In the climbing.
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Yes, life’s paths wind quite a bit, in unexpected ways!
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Very much so! 🙂 thank you for the comment!
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the path no one sees, very cryptic to me
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Perhaps some see ahead, with crystal balls or intuiting or otherworldly knowledge … but most of us, I think, do our best to try and surmise where our path leads and try to correct course where we can, or follow our heart and mind to where we hope to go. Isn’t life all cryptic, in some way? 😉
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LOVE the illustration — fits perfetly with your words here. Great A-B-C-ing! 🙂 Doors close and push us to look elsewhere 🙂 and the world keeps throwing curves at us but the skill is to march on, right?
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Marching on sure beats sliding back down the stairs and never finding out what’s around the corner! 🙂 Thank you for the comment and feedback! 🙂
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Life poetically likened to a Fibonacci spiral. A high phi! (Sorry, couldn’t resist).
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Ha! 🙂
Glad you didn’t resist. 🙂
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I like the link between closing doors and unseen paths.
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Thank you. Isn’t it often the case, that we may not know what is behind closed doors, or what the path may bring … 🙂
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Excellent and true. All of the paths we have to choose and most (all?) we cannot see where it leads.
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Thank you! Yes, sometimes we might have a path where we think we know where it might take us, but this doesn’t mean we won’t meet a curve or a dip or a climb or a flip … 😉
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I think the mystery always lays ahead.
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Exactly! 🙂
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This sestet is so deceptively simple. I love it. And the photograph as well. “The path no one sees” reminds me of the concept of ensō.
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Thank you! To have the complex seem simple is to have the job done … 🙂 The stunning photo was taken by a friend and colleague of mine. He has an excellent eye for such things and is gracious in allowing me to use some of his images. 🙂 Thank you for the comment, Victoria!
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