February 18, 2004

"I climb the road to Cold Mountain,
the road to Cold Mountain that never ends.
The valleys are long & strewn w/ stones,
the streams broad & banked w/ thick grass.
Moss is slippery, though no rain has fallen;
pines sigh, but it isn't the wind.
Who can break from the snares of the world
and sit with me among the white clouds?" Han-Shan