A week at the beach during Spring Break, near Sarasota, Florida, my God, the cars, the crowds, no peace.
“To philosophize is
To learn
To die.”
Michel Montaigne, French
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Haiku —
To see the world
In lines of three.
…
The sun, the sand,
The wind, the waves
I finally reached the beach.
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On Casey Key,
Poor Pyrrho of Ellis
Couldn’t afford to stay
— Basho no yona
Previously, two plus millennia ago, back in the Peloponnesus…
Pyrrho of Elis (4th c. BC) was an Ancient Greek philosopher who disdained wealth and luxury and preached the philosophy of ataraxia, by suspending judgment about beliefs.
In France and Japan one philosophizes, one waxes poetic.
Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592) gave us the essay. Basho gave us the haiku. The beaches along the Florida Keys near Sarasota are a place to rest amid the restless waves.
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