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Octopus Messiah
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Last night I handed a friend a book to be read.
First one in fifteen years I've felt happy sharing.
I'd like to think I'm better now than I was then, as a man and as a writer. More open, less judgmental.
It's a rare and precious thing, a finished piece of art, especially one that's taken many months to craft.
My wife counsels "Don't be attached to outcomes."
Which is wise and Buddhist but also hard.
Because now a different type of work begins. One that I am not alone in finding much more challenging.
Colony, I feel you.
Maktub. It is written
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(photo from a tiny corner of Malaysian Borneo, in one of the last remaining bastions of the orang utan, meaning "people of the forest")
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First one in fifteen years I've felt happy sharing.
I'd like to think I'm better now than I was then, as a man and as a writer. More open, less judgmental.
It's a rare and precious thing, a finished piece of art, especially one that's taken many months to craft.
My wife counsels "Don't be attached to outcomes."
Which is wise and Buddhist but also hard.
Because now a different type of work begins. One that I am not alone in finding much more challenging.
Colony, I feel you.
Maktub. It is written
x
(photo from a tiny corner of Malaysian Borneo, in one of the last remaining bastions of the orang utan, meaning "people of the forest")
![P1010037.JPG P1010037.JPG](https://colony.litopia.com/data/attachments/0/34-82fa318fee32a1cf3a2895fbe63c71cd.jpg?hash=gvoxj-4yoc)