Bookmarker is a personal project by @dellsystem to help with retaining reading material. Source on GitHub.

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plastic roses and the importance of contrast

Pick up a flower--a beautiful, living, fresh rose. It smells wonderful. It reveals a lovely rhythm in the swirl of its petals, a rich yet dazzling color, a soft velvety texture. It moves and delights us.

The problem with the rose is that it dies. Its petals fall; it shrivels up; it turns brown a…

—p.20 Buddhism Plain and Simple by Steve Hagen