The play's the thing

Life is a moderately good play 

        with a badly written third act.

                    Truman Capote, Tru

 

 

 

 

 

Bribery

Trees know when we are close by.
The chemistry of their roots and the perfumes of their leaves
pump out change when we're near...
when you feel good after a walk in the woods,
it may be that certain species are bribing you.

        Richard Powers, The Overstory

 

 

 

 

 

Labor day

My object in living is to unite
My avocation and my vocation
As my two eyes make one in sight.
Only where love and need are one,
And the work is play for mortal stakes,
Is the deed ever really done
For heaven and the future’s sakes.

     Robert Frost, from the poem Two Tramps in Mud Time