Angels Looking
"Even angels long to look into these things."
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Spring is ready to bust itself wide open, for the center stage.
In Chinese, we say 生機勃勃, or 生機處處, meaning "life opportunity exuberant and everywhere."
What do you hear when you hear the word "opportunity"? A chance to achieve your ends, I suspect. A greater return on investment, we expect. Whatever we want from life, this is our most favorable moment to get it.
You might think my first sentence was crudely put, considering the romance of the subject, a poet's field day. Punches and blows, these are the ways to bust something if wide open is our aim, to expose a scandal or deception often the context, to scrutinize and debunk falsehood the proposed results.
Maybe what I was suggesting is that spring offers itself as an opportunity just as such, to open itself up, wide as a stage, and see who and what would come out to play. It is a scandal when the curtains are drawn but not much is happening. Even worse if your role is the program director, the lone shadow finally emerges under the dim spot light to announce to an audience of angels, that there is a good reason for the painful and futile gestation, a justification to the no-show spectacle, the hollow gong of a sonorous void.
A true opportunity, a real opening of life is a mystery: we wouldn't know what we are getting into. Bright as a spring morning it might be, there's always a mist in the air, a chill to our skin that, if given the favorable chance, might make its way down our spine.
Yours, Alex
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