Being both body and spirit,
How to be sensual, moral, disciplined and playful.
Both fully aware and learned,
How to be new and innocent of prejudices.
Aware of the harsh brutalities of life and death,
How to be loving and compassionate.
Skeptical and wary, even if subject to the bad judgement of others,
How to avoid bitterness and cynicism, knowing you cannot make anyone do anything.
Embracing all of humanity without reference to gender,
How to be both without seeing one as better, one worse.
Be comfortable in silence, in waiting, alone.
Create, feed, carry, share.
Let go, don't claim, demand, nor expect praise.
Live your life well, don't try to make others live well.
No one can be forced into wisdom, each must find their own way.
Tantony Pig.
The smallest pig of a litter, which, according to the old proberb, will follow it's owner anywhere. So called in honour of St. Anthony, who was the patron saint of swine-herds and is frequently represented with a little pig at his side.
-Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 1963, p. 882.
5 comments:
Let go, don't expect praise.
Indeed, I've been working on these two for quite some time.
Phil,
Sort of the definition of good parenting, I suspect.
I wish......I try, I frequently fail. I shall keep the 'Pig' words. Thankyou Z.
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Yeah, me too.
'a tantony pig
a tantony pig
when you bring him to market
he's not worth a fig'
this powerfully in my memory from a childhood book, but can't find anything on google to remind me which book...
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