Busy Making Plans While Life Is Passing By.

(I've been looking at a lot of plans the last few days)

“It's an ill plan that cannot be changed”

- Latin Proverb


I must know Latin for I keep changing plans.

- Ghostwise

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“A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door”

- Confucius


I'm planning long but will that stop trouble knocking at my door?

- Ghostwise

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“Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans”

- John Lennon


I hope Life is not passing me by while I'm busy with my plans.

- Ghostwise

Is Your Plan Better Than The Grasshopper?

(We caught a huge grasshopper and released it into the wild. Today, I did not see the grasshopper but I saw the leaves being eaten again.)

Summer Day

Who made the world?
Who made the swan, and the black bear?
Who made the grasshopper?
This grasshopper, I mean-
the one who has flung herself out of the grass,
the one who is eating sugar out of my hand,
who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down-
who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes.
Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face.
Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away.
I don’t know exactly what a prayer is.
I do know how to pay attention,
how to fall downinto the grass,
how to kneel down in the grass,
how to be idle and blessed,
how to stroll through the fields,
which is what I have been doing all day.
Tell me, what else should I have done?
Doesn’t everything die at last, and too soon?
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?

- Mary Oliver in New and Selected Poems (Boston: Beacon Press) 1992


I echo: what is your plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

- Ghostwise