Thursday, April 29

Tigers above, tigers below

Ellis' new album. The title song relates this Buddhist story of a woman running away from tigers:

The woman runs and runs, and the tigers are getting closer and closer. When she comes to the edge of a cliff, she sees some tree branches below, so she climbs down, holding on to the branches. Looking down, she sees that there are tigers below her as well. She then notices that a mouse is chewing on the tree branch she is clinging to. She also sees a beautiful little bunch of strawberries close to her, growing out of a clump of grass. She looks up and she looks down. She looks at the mouse. Then she simply takes a strawberry, puts it in her mouth, and enjoys it thoroughly.


Maybe this is the subconscious reason for me liking strawberries.

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