And if it so happens
that someone sees chance beside me,
that chance should be taken!

It is not my chance, it belongs to whoever takes it.
No one can grasp it any more than I can.
Nothing about it can be known, but it can be taken.
But who can see it without taking it?

Whoever you are, reading me: take your chance.
As I do, without rushing it, just at this moment, while writing,
I gamble with you.
This chance is neither yours, nor mine. It is the chance of all human beings
and their light.

Has it ever had the vividness that the night now gives it?

–excerpt On Nietzsche by Georges Bataille, Trans. by Stuart Kendall, pg. 98

Saturday morning at Starbucks.

Conversed with a friend about the local restaurant scene.  Took note of several places, possibilities that I am interested to experience.

Wondered about the weather today in the Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.  It is 4PM Saturday, raining, with a temperature of 41 degrees F.  Imagine my life in a mud filled trench-line, randomly exposed to steel splinters from artillery fire…  Warfare, the ultimate expression of chance, casino-of-destruction.

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What tune presents itself, a lifeline for our journey today?  This one seems right:  Take It Easy by The Eagles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFdMXV6WjVA

Take It Easy

By The Eagles

Well, I’m a-running down the road
Tryin’ to loosen my load
I’ve got seven women on my mind
Four that wanna own me
Two that wanna stone me
One says she’s a friend of mine

Take it easy, take it easy
Don’t let the sound of your own wheels drive you crazy
Lighten up while you still can
Don’t even try to understand
Just find a place to make your stand
And take it easy

Well, I’m a-standing on a corner
In Winslow, Arizona
Such a fine sight to see
It’s a girl, my Lord
In a flat-bed Ford
Slowin’ down to take a look at me

Come on, baby
Don’t say “Maybe”
I gotta know
If your sweet love
Is gonna save me
We may lose and we may win
Though we will never be here again
So open up, I’m climbin’ in
So take it easy

Well, I’m running down the road
Trying to loosen my load
Got a world of trouble on my mind
Lookin’ for a lover
Who won’t blow my cover
She’s so hard to find

Take it easy, take it easy
Don’t let the sound of your own wheels make you crazy
Come on, baby
Don’t say “Maybe”
I gotta know
If your sweet love
Is gonna save me

Oh we got it easy
We oughta take it easy

Lyrics by: Glenn Frey, Jackson Browne