Tuesday, December 31, 2013

'Cracked Pot' Resolutions

                                                                                   Attribution: Einsamer Schutze
Image: A Broken Pot Patched Together
(may hold water but some)
Source: Wikimedia Commons (here)

Tedious close to a
troubled year where many
gave sighs of relief

Radiance of new dawn
Heralds discourse of hope
Amidst trying times

Groggy hysteria
Conflicts and social woes still
casting long shadows

Resolutions of
Cracked Pot kind meeting part of
still deemed successful

Note: This relates to a story from  a reader to Pakcik (here) where
a cracked pot of water carried a distance arriving half full was still better.
Half of resolutions met was better than no resolutions to target for in
the first place

Written for Kerry’s hosting at Real Toads with  - let's make a few resolutions

26 comments:

  1. I feel the message is that we should use what we have, waiting for perfection is a waste of time.

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  2. You have done better than I thought possible. Even the picture is one that I could not get hold of.for my posting. Well done and Happy new year to you and family

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  3. reminds me a bit of the story of the cracked pot carried by the monk from the river that left a row of flowers in its wake....

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    1. Basically the same, Brian! What matters it leaves an impression!

      Hank

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  4. loved this.. a great message in the poem...

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  5. Hey, cracked pot, cracked mind, cracked culture, we gotta do what we gotta do. Thanks for the reminder that taking down a notch does not equal failure.

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  6. I like the analogy, half of the whole thing is better than none at all ~ Happy new year Hank ~

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  7. I like this, and cracked pot is priceless.

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  8. Good one, Hank, and I love your comment after about the cracked pot.......I am happy to see the last of 2013 and turn with relief to a brand new year!

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  9. p.s. at first I thought it was a cracked brain in the photo, hee hee.

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  10. Great glass is half empty story

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  11. *•. ¸*•.¸*•.¸*•. *•.¸ ¸.•*¸.•*¸.•*¸.•*¸.•*
    *... *...*...*░ HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!░* * *...*...*
    ¸.•* ¸.•*¸.•* ¸.•*¸.•* *•.¸*•.¸*•.¸*•.¸*•

    much love...

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  12. Yes. Patch the Pot and carry it, my Friend, happily into this new year.

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  13. True, all may not get done, but at least some change occured

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  14. Some is better than none, Happy New Year

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  15. Splendid write Hank great to read.

    Yvonne.

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  16. i like that image of the water pod... yep... arriving half-full is better than not going at all... happy new year to you hank

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  17. Love the story of the cracked pot... a resolution reaching someway is better than non... Happy New Year

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  18. good pen, Hank. The Nirvana fallacy: that if perfect is unachievable best not start at all.

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  19. Cracked pot resolutions...I like that. I have decided to only make one resolution...not to make any. :)

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  20. And then again... are we not all cracked pots on some level? The new year, a new chance, to heal, seal cracks, evolve.

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  21. Well not a big fan of resolutions, but prefer to look at them as goals. Is that different, probably not, just more comfortable for me. Great writing, thanks.
    Pea.

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  22. !! If I succeed in completing 1/2 of my resolutions… Wow, Success. ;) Happy New Year.

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  23. I agree with that cracked pot concept...well done in conveying that poetically as well.

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  24. The cracked pot concept is interesting. Happy New Year.

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  25. Excellent use of metaphor here, Hank. I do hope that 2014 is a good year for you, and that your cracked pot holds some water after all.

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