I’ve never been particularly lucky. Loki and I are not really on good terms because he keeps leaving me in the lurch. I’m more of an Odin type person, if I was a Viking, which I am. I guess I was born under a bad sign. May your path be filled with honor and glory and… Happy Friday!

Fifty-Three

If I have even just a little sense,
I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it.
Keeping to the main road is easy,
But people love to be sidetracked.

When the court is arrayed in splendor,
The fields are full of weeds,
And the granaries are bare.
Some wear gorgeous clothes,
Carry sharp swords,
And indulge themselves with food and drink;
They have more possessions than they can use.
They are robber barons.
This is certainly not the way of Tao.

Tao Te Ching by Lao Tsu
Translation by Ray Burgess