Fwd: One Rickety Answer; Scenes from the Journey, vol. 22, no. 17, plus August 2025 booklist

One Rickety Answer

Answers are a sham solution,

sought by the cocksure, by charlatans,

by those seeking to be on the winning side.

Let go of answers,

which are rickety at best,

contrived or duplicitous at their worst.

Let's hear it instead for questions and queries,

for expressions of doubt,

for open and inquiring minds.

Especially for the eternal questions,

there are no answers.

There are assertions of knowing,

pretensions of truth.

But not answers.

Ah, those eternal questions:

Why are we (am I) here?

What will come after?

Actually, those two are just about it.

Cogitate on these and you'll be busy

for the rest of your time.

Or don't cogitate at all.

Spend your time living it up,

taking adventurous leaps

into the wilderness.

Just be.

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