Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) is an Argentine poet, essayist and short-story writer whose works have become literary classics.

This is a haiku he wrote:

My aging hand
writing down verses
for oblivion.

Just beyond the gate,
a neat yellow hole
someone pissed in the snow.

Haiku by Kobayashi Issa

I found this great photo of Georgie Best  at Wikipedia.org. It was taken in 1968.

George Best, died yesterday in a West London hospital after a long struggle against the effects of alcoholism. He was 59.

Georgie the Best, was a Belfast boy who made it to the dressing rooms of the Manchester City Football Club.

A Northern Ireland football international, Best is widely regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the game.

Rest in peace George. Red or blue, Manchester loved you
was a message left on a Manchester City shirt.

Scotland’s rugby side might struggle against the All Blacks today, but the nation of men who wear dresses, drink whisky and talk of former glories now lead the world in far weightier sport.

Torquhil Campbell — a distant cousin of the Queen and better known as the 13th Duke of Argyll — dons his pith helmet and climbs on top of a three-metre high Elephant in Nepal on Monday to compete in the Elephant Polo World Championship. The 37-year-old Duke, captain of the Chivas Regal Scotland team, is hoping his side is able to bring home the championship for a second consecutive year.

TimesOnline | Link

You can finds lots of useful (and of course not so useful) information when searching the Net. Here’s some info on e.e. cummings or maybe it’s E. E. Cummings if Norman Friedman has got it right.

It may at first seem of little import, but for a poet who paid such exacting attention to typography, it must be said once and for all that his name should be written and printed with the usual capital letters in their usual places: E. E. Cummings.

Thought I’d add another of e.e’s poems that takes my fancy.

Jiddu Krishnamurti was born May 1895 in Madanapalle, South India and died February 1986 in the USA.

When he was asked to describe his teachings, Krishnamurti said:

Truth is a pathless land. Man cannot come to it through any organization, through any creed, through any dogma, priest or ritual, not through any philosophic knowledge or psychological technique. He has to find it through the mirror of relationship, through the understanding of the contents of his own mind, through observation and not through intellectual analysis or introspective dissection.

Another of his quotes that I like:

You must understand the whole of life, not just one little part of it. That is why you must read, that is why you must look at the skies, that is why you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer, and understand, for all that is life.