Visiting Daming Temple Tom Sharp

This is my third visit to this temple in Jiangsu that my old mentor, Quyang Xiu, built. He’s been dead for ten years, and half my life has passed in a snap. Some things are meant to last— dragons flying on a wall, the spring breeze in willows. Don’t say it’s all over after you die when it’s all a dream as you live it.

西江月·平山堂 苏轼

平山堂 三过平山堂下，半生弹指声中。 十年不见老仙翁，壁上龙蛇飞动。 欲吊文章太守，仍歌杨柳春风。 休言万事转头空，未转头时皆梦。