Zen Pencils by Gavin Aung Than for December 16, 2013

Great stuff!!! And a little uncomfortable, like all great art (and prose)…

Life is dear…..never sell it cheap.

Deep.

Deep.

I hope that you can find someone to help you if you are feeling that low. Life is hard.

Please stay with us longer.

Every life has value. Never give up.

I have been very fortunate (as well as determined in each of my goals). I expect to continue a very full life in good health and enjoying all of the greatest delights (including seeing great grandchildren now that grandkids are graduating college). I have outlived most who wished me ill.

I wish that I had known all I had to do was ask Life to make me rich.I’m sorry, I don’t see it as being that simple. I think Life gives you what it wants you to have and it’s up to you to make something of it.

Don’t worry…..it will.That is as certain as the sun will rise tomorrow.

I had to memorize this in 5th grade, about when the author died. She was 78, famous, and by all accounts had a rich full life. It was understood in those days that the “bargaining” included the work and effort you would put forth, in work and relationships.