Two translation attempts of Rilke's Buddha in der Glorie

My Last Door Georgia O’Keeffe

And Jesus, pointing his finger at the entrance of the cave, spoke in a loud voice: “How bad do you want it really”

What do you call a Mexican billionaire? Jeff Pesos

The gambler’s is a world of odds and ends.

Hyperbolea, the land of exaggeration

Graveyard by the freeway, must be noisy underground Skeletons of bitumen and sound

Death is a racecar, all roads to Rome Eternal return, call that a palindrome

The demand that an artist’s life justify his work curtails his creative horizon. The work should strive to justify the life, and then some.

Shoshin, “beginner’s mind,” means to pull out all the stops.

The highest alienation

Meat-Shaped Stone, National Palace Museum Taipei

Foodland is the best grocery store in the U.S. and it is not close

The worst word in the English language is “crocheting” and it is not close

Grinding has a fixed objective and fixed methods. Questing has a fixed objective but unfixed methods. One may have to grind to quest. But when one grinds to grind, one is a bot.