This is what you shall do:
love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone who asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning god, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body….
quotation taken from the preface to “Leaves of Grass’ by Walt Whitman.
Sent in by loyal Kurungabaa reader: Robert M.
[cheers mate]
ps. Swell has arrived: 4 ft Airport rights; 6 ft+ Impossibles.
I’m going to have to look up more on this Walt guy… Sounds like he knows what it’s all about…
Stoked for you Clif, have fun!
Loved the ps. Go Clif go
Wise words,,,
thanks for putting that out there Clif..
Mr. Whitman and the other”transcendentalist” have a lot to say to us..from over the years.
And we can learn from them.
Reception on our end can get a bit warbled at times..but it’s all out there if you take the effort to look.
I think given the chance, old Walt would probably have been a hell of a surfer.
I’m thinking 9’2″chambered balsa , 5 fin bonzer round tail would be the go for him.
No leash.
No need.
…and naked. butt ass naked.
Dina,
perfect,absolutely perfect.