Bill Fell 10/10/20

“To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts”

Henry David Thoreau

So, finally I break down and get a smart phone.  And I am actually carrying it with me when I remember.  So why the change of heart?  I was finally persuaded that to NOT carry a phone is not exactly in step with the bodhisattva vow given that others occasionally might count on me for help.

Where was Walt Whitman’s phone?
  What am I aspiring for?
    Why did I phonelessly hunt golf balls
      When I was needed at home?
Abandon old ways, Bill

Where’s the open-heart in that? 
  What’s the openness called for in our vows?
    Why do I resist another imagined tether
      When I have caller ID, just
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