#dick allen

[nomorechoirs]

fr. “What You Have to Get Over” by Dick Allen

[oldschoolgentleman62]

[eelhound]

Not Too Far from the Golden Gate

"Just as a tree understands a tree's job,

and water understands water's job,

you will go to hell like an arrow

if you don't understand your job

is not to explain your situation and condition,

but, like a melon, to just grow and ripen

by yourself. The ocean is full of water.

There are many clouds in the sky.

What is the one pure and clear thing?"

- Dick Allen, "Not Too Far from the Golden Gate." Zen Master Poems, 2016.

[coolthingsguyslike]

[aagciii]

#15 - Dick Allen - 1B - Chicago White Sox (1972-1974)

[shawnkidbaby]

[dk-thrive]

To be alive … is to be in full play with mystery and beauty and love. You live on a very strange little speck of rock in a very remote corner of the universe. Cherish it.

Dick Allen, “Hoping for Snow in Dark December: A Balm in Troubled Times” (Courant.com, December 20, 2015)

[phillyphangirl]