Imagine That!

Your name is Pickle Inspector, and you are a Prospitan private investigator. You work out of a small, quaint office in Midnight City, where you put your vivid imagination to very good use. You are polite, spiritual, and fond of spirits, stars and tea. You are feeling particularly disconcerted today. What will you do? M!A Status: None Chumhandle: pickledImagination [Independent blog for carapace Pickle Inspector of Problem Sleuth. All posts are IC unless bracketed or tagged OOC. Blog may be NSFW at times.]

[zentaku]

You want to practice Zen? Get some instruction and sit. Retreats would be good. If you can. Check in with your spiritual elders. In the flesh and through the printed page. Embracing the precepts. Just the five. They are a pointer to the awakened life. And they are a container when you feel you don’t have a clue. Or, even, when you think you do. I find all this also calls us to act in the world some. Do some good. Follow your heart in this, but do something for someone else. This is a critical part of the whole deal. We are what we do. And after that, it is just living life. Being engaged. Allowing your heart to break. Doing things. Screwing up. Royally, perhaps. Fixing things. Falling down. Getting up. As Mary Oliver sings to us, the spiritual path isn’t difficult, well, rather, it doesn’t have lots of necessary parts. To live in this world you must be able to do three things: To love what is mortal; to hold it against your bones knowing your own life depends on it; And, when the time comes to let it go, to let it go. That appears to be it. The Zen way.

James Ishmael Ford (via zentaku)

[wanderingbreath]

[menentk]

Lotus Flower - by Bahman Farzad on Flickr.

[pickledimagination-blog]

> Oh. The rumours are true.

> Disgruntled whining.

[syflove]

white wine

[aseaofquotes]

Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

[tealeavesandteacups]

[tealeavesandteacups]

[pickledimagination-blog]

Sleuth is up to something.

[queerferret]

Some comics about thoughts about hands to get me back into the comics groove~

[aseaofquotes]

Niccolo Ammaniti, I’ll Steal You Away

Submitted by atwistedlabyrinth.

[kammy-baby]

Eh….?! Pickle, this wasn’t directed at you at all!! Really! It’s just….I’m sorry. Sometimes I feel the need to vent, you know…? My family abandoned me when I was a teenager, most of the ‘friends’ I had made back then left too, and countless others over the past couple years. Sometimes I can’t help but wonder….who will be the next to go…?

You are the best moirail in the universe, though. I didn’t ask you to be my palemate for no reason!  Of course I will be able to forgive you, no matter what— just as I hope you will be able to forgive me, and…..and deal with whenever my mood isn’t at its finest. That seems to be a deal breaker for some, and it scares me a little bit.

Pickle…! You’re such a sweetheart, you really are. I am lucky to be spending my first official Quadrant Day with you! I’m just…wow…I’m a bit overwhelmed, hehe….

> Try to casually brush a tear from your eye.

[pickledimagination-blog]

I understand--venting, I mean. Sorry. I-I suppose it's the nerves, you know? I can work myself to vapors from almost anything.

But I... of course, of course, Kammy. Anyone who isn't willing to step alongside you at your worst isn't deserving of you at your best, and I... well, I'm privileged, I think, for that.

I do owe you a step into Imagination. Perhaps to mark the occasion? Aha. :]

[kammy-baby]

"People always say they are going to be in your life. ‘Best Friends Forever’, things like that. But those words always end up being empty promises. Empty promises that…..I’m awfully tired of hearing.

People come and go; the ones who stay are the ones who matter.

But who is going to step up and be the ones who stay? That’s the true question.”

[pickledimagination-blog]

I... I'm not... the most reliable person, admittedly. I've left people behind before. U-unintentionally, for the most part... and inevitably they're the people who matter the most to me. I get preoccupied, I get... distracted. Gracious, there was that one incident where I was dead--it seems like so long ago, now. Almost like a dream....

But... well, I suppose what I'm untidily getting around to is that... it's not my intent. It's never out of spite, or malice, or unchecked grievances... I really do mean to try to be the best I can, whether in my professional life, or my personal.

I hope that, in the event that I make mistakes--and I would say I'm only human as the saying goes, but, well, you know--you'll be able to forgive me, Kammy. My... my phone is never unplugged. The ROI is never unreachable... and my heart is never unopened to you. I'll always answer... even if it takes me a while.

Ahaha. Perhaps I've overthought this, as I do most things. But it's a week for sentimentality, with Quadrant Day approaching and all. You're a wonderful moirail. And more importantly, a wonderful friend, Kamora.

[beifongkendo]

Shishi-odoshi fountain, a zen garden essential.

[gardens-in-the-sun]

Ryoanji

[kammy-baby]

Aww! I can safely say you have made me more sentimental as well, dear Pickle! I am very lucky to have someone like you in my life!

[pickledimagination-blog]

Oh, likewise. Ah, look at me, I don't even know what to say.

I am a very, very lucky man, to say the least...!

I do hope you're enjoying a relatively laid-back Sunday yourself. :]

[kammy-baby]

Of course not~! I just like bringing a smile to your face!

[pickledimagination-blog]

You do so daily. Ahaha. :] Look at this, you're making me so sentimental!