I’m a work in progress with no clear finish line in sight. Yet, I aspire to being and doing better.
Below is my latest senryu and the quote that inspired it.
Today’s senryu: Love Everything?
I know I love you
and animals and plants – but –
purists, not so much
“Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to understand it every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love … Things flow and are indirectly linked together, and if you push here, something will move at the other end of the world.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov as quoted by Richard Rohr in Immortal Diamond (c) 2013, Jossey-Bass, p.159
https://www.amazon.com/Immortal-Diamond
https://www.amazon.com/Brothers-Karamazov-Bicentennial-Novel-Epilogue
Life Matters 
Read the book, seen the play in a London theatre. Struggling a bit with the senryu though?
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“Struggling a bit”; how appropriate. Thank you, Dr. B
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Did not know there was a play ? Followed the online course with the life changing book 🧡
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I should also have said that there were only 3 characters in the play. Two brothers and their father. Plus a single prop on a bare stage …. a fur coat! The players took it in turns to be the father who always wore the coat. My poor wife who had not read the book was confused beyond despair, we still laugh about it.
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Can understand your wives confusion … what a play .. but then how do you ‘act’ the book ? Must have been very innovative and revealing to those familiar with it.
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Aren’t we supposed to love them too .. the purists ? I guess “not so much is good enough
……. for a start 😊 till Love takes over ….
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It was at The Fortune, a fringe theatre 30 or so years ago!
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