# 128:

You’ve got to keep a vigilant awareness
of your own ignorance to keep learning.


~ Russ Allison Loar
© All Rights Reserved

My Cat

O the quiet life of my cat,
The empty bliss of this is that.



~ Words and photograph by Russ Allison Loar
© All Rights Reserved

# 219:

There are only so many years
between ignorant youngster and senile senior.
Make the most of them while you've got 'em.


~ Russ Allison Loar
© All Rights Reserved

A Worried Man

He was such a worried man,

so sure something was about to go wrong. Every time the clock struck the hour, he counted the strikes, fearing the clock would make a mistake.

~ Text and photo by Russ Allison Loar
© All Rights Reserved

Seek

Seek questions, not answers.




~ Text and artwork by Russ Allison Loar
© All Rights Reserved

# 123:

The hopeless prayers
are the most important prayers.


~ Russ Allison Loar
© All Rights Reserved

The Universal Question

You have to make an effort to not do something, much less not do anything. Perhaps more properly “not doing” should be called “pre-doing.” This suggests a possible answer to the universal question: “What is the universal question?” The answer, of course, is the question.

Knock knock.
Who’s there?
Everyone and everything.
Everyone and everything who?
Yes!

So before the universe there was nothing. So what came before nothing? Once again we are faced with the contradictions of logic, which suggest the answer: Nothing. Perhaps then “nothing” should be called “pre-something.” Whatever created the universe, aka, something, was, I suppose, not in existence during the time of “pre-something.” So, once again we return to the question: “Where did the universe (something) come from?” Some quantum physicists may tell you that coming and going, that time itself may only exist in certain selective states. This may be true, for I was in Utah once. Nevertheless, if you find yourself in the company of a quantum physicist, whatever you do, don’t ask what time it is!

Now what I want to know is, what came before nothing, aka pre-something. (I cannot discard my sense of linear time, my sense of here and there, of before and after.) If something indeed came before nothing, then did that which created the something before “pre-something” make a conscious decision to eventually extinguish something and start over again? (There is Biblical precedent for this.) So doing extinguishes not-doing in order to not do nothing?

{Blues riff into with harmonica}

I ain’t gonna do
What I’m not gonna do
Cuz I’m already do-ing
It.

~ Writing and Artwork by Russ Allison Loar
© All Rights Reserved