Reminders for myself

Experience. Don’t observe.

Inhale. Don’t read.

Transfigure. Don’t shift.

Advocate. Don’t ponder.

Prove. Don’t promise.

Encourage. Don’t cut.

Imagine. Don’t worry.

Do. Don’t analyze.

Hear. Don’t listen.

Show. Don’t tell.

Give. Don’t take.

You may think: What’s happened? Good God, are they kidding? But it is a rule of life, alas, that nobody is kidding.