David Given Schwarm

Married, Father, United

I wouldn’t mind commuting from Irvine, CA to Carlsbad, CA

I could work at Lego Land!
Flat top haircut went out of style too soon

Meatlocker-2008-09-28T18:59:38-000025.jpg Flat top.
In my version, Snow White hangs out with Love

Love A standard hippie dwarf
A hard goodbye

Cats–their future was bleak.
Graduate school – those were the good ol’ days

I did not finish.
Intelligentsia treats me right

They served a Chemex pot to me on a day it was not on the menu.
If I could fly, I’d be a Pterydactyl

Pterydactyl Spanner Sculpture it is hard to spell
15. Modesty
CASE 59: Seirin’s "Deadly Snake"

A monk asked Seirin, “How is it when a practitioner goes along a narrow path?” Seirin said, “You will meet a deadly snake on the great road. I advise you not to run into it.” The monk said, “What if I do run into it?” Seirin said, “You will lose your life.” The monk said,…
XII The Hanged Man

deals with sacrifice, delays and waiting We sacrifice every time we make a choice “whatever will be, will be” Elemental Trump of Water A cenotaph–a tomb erected when the body is somewhere else. Not about a debt that needs to be paid, rather, “noble duty of the enlightened to bring enlightenment to the unenlightened”.