I like the background on Mr Harry Connick Jr.'s website. The songs are such fun sounds too. http://www.hconnickjr.com/

"I don't want to"

I don't want to protect you just because I am bound by duty. I want to learn to love you, a love I would freely give. A response would require something initiated first, something to respond to. I could respond in love, but it would not be you whom I react from. I can only act toward you.

Take a look.

http://pixane.net/blog/archives/305

Very Zen indeed.

The Strawberry
A Zen Tale from Japan

There was once a man who was being chased by a ferocious tiger across a field. At the edge of the field there was a cliff. In order to escape the jaws of the tiger, the man caught hold of a vine and swung himself over the edge of the cliff. Dangling down, he saw, to his dismay, there were more tigers on the ground below him! And, furthermore, two little mice were gnawing on the vine to which he clung. He knew that at any moment he would fall to certain death. That's when he noticed a wild strawberry growing on the cliff wall. Clutching the vine with one hand, he plucked the strawberry with the other and put it in his mouth.

He never before realized how sweet a strawberry could taste.

[All together now...Ommm...]

Taken from
http://www.storyarts.org/library/nutshell/stories/strawberry.html

-wot?-

IT'S NOVEMBER ALREADY.