A Rare Thing
…A picture! Of me! Of which there are approximately three in existence that I haven't hunted down and destroyed! (I don't much like cameras, and they don't much like me.)
However, while this one may be of me, it isn't about me — it's about three koi, doggedly swimming up a waterfall, about to succeed at the impossible simply because they ("they" being Azaz the Unabridged and the Mathemagician, of course) didn't tell the poor fish it was impossible all along.
So they — the koi, utterly common and yet somehow mysterious and beautiful and hailed throughout millennia as symbols of courage, fortitude and skill — leap right upstream, leaping off each other when needed, making the impossible climb for no reward other than the having made it.
This post is specifically about a family of three of them, just getting started, having swum a long ways before, but only now reached the real shit of it: the waterfall, the place where everything else crashes down and they must rise up, together.
We're going to make it!
(Yeah, they're new. And soooooooore, today, haha.)
13 comments
Oi. Found your blog searching “I Ching” on the googles, but a ctrl+f only finds mention of it in this sentence? I see a few links to polyphasic sleeping though, have you tried it?
Awesome tattoo. You chose well.
woa
You are beautiful. That is all :)
Aw! Flattery will get you…well, just about anything you want, really. ;)
yea! ;)
Thank you, Geves. I have mentioned the I Ching a few places; I think I even did a post or two about it at some point, but it’s a hobby and a comfort to me privately, and not primarily what I’m blogging about. …Polyphasic sleep is, actually, one of the more primary focii of this blog. I’ve done it quite a bit. ;)
Welcome!
Geves says "I see a few links to polyphasic sleeping though, have you tried it?"
:D funny comment
@puredoxyk : yeah you definitely should try it !
Haha I agree, I was a little hard-pressed not to be ultra snarky there; but see? I was nice!
I should totally try it *again*, though, that’s for sure! ;)
Yeah, thanks. 3 seconds after the message posted I saw you have, in fact, written the book on it. And because you were so nice I might buy a copy.
I've heard a theory floating around that the more natural version (compared to the norm) is where you sleep from 19:00 (ish) to 23:00 (ish), wake for a peaceful few hours and then sleep from 03:00 (ish) to 7:00 again.
Virtuous circle in action right there !
Well hello! It's a bit funny seeing a real live picture of you after "knowing" you (e-knowing?) for the last what, 4-5 years? Funny stuff that is :-)
Nice fishie, I wanna eat 'em….
Funny and awesome! So go on, weigh in; do I live up to expectations? ;)
Awesome picture! When I was a kid, I was told a tale about how the koi, by jumping over a very high waterfall, can turn into glorious dragons. I've always loved the hope and beauty in that image.