So we are going to talk over together like two friends discussing a problem, neither one trying to persuade the other to accept or to discard. And to talk over together, both must listen, and that is going to be our difficulty. Listening is one of the most difficult things to do. We never listen. We are listening to our own thoughts, to our own ideas, to our own concepts, to the ways of how we should or should not behave. We are concerned with our own occupations, with our own problems, with our own sorrows, and we have our own answers and explanations; or we have the explanations and the sayings of another whom we respect or whom we are afraid of – which is the same thing. The act of listening is really one of the most difficult things to do.

From Collected Works, Vol. 16

#krishnamurti
#meditation
#phylosophy
#life
#day24

Penultimate dram in the calendar was consumed after my annual two-day cooking marathon as guests began to arrive for Christmas Eve. In the bottle was Edradour's Ballechin 18 Batch 1 Cask Strength at 50.9% ABV.

Nice smoky, iodine-y peat and almonds on the nose; citrus, peat, a bit of salt, and maybe some menthol on the palate; with honey and black pepper on the finish. Right up my alley.

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And this is the second version I did for #Gobtober #Day24 's prompt #dragon

This one makes it clear what the #goblin is running from.

Which do YOU like better?

#Gobtober #Day24 has #dragon as a prompt. As you might guess, that one holds a special place for me, so I did two versions of this one. Not sure which I prefer.

Here's the first one - the #goblin all by themselves: