This tree was behind the burned-out woodshed of the neighbors house that burned down in August, 2019.
[daily log: walking, 3.5km; dogwalking, 3km]
Day: January 30, 2023
Caveat: 찰 거머리 정
I found this aphorism in my book of Korean aphorisms.
찰 거머리 정
chal geo.meo.ri jeong
sticky leech passion
A sticky leech’s passion
There’s not much grammar going on here. It’s just a noun phrase. It refers to the excessively clingy lover – I suppose that’s what the parallel usage is in English: clingy. The word 정 [jeong] is complex and even problematic, but here I think passion is acceptable translation. I blogged about 정 here, many years ago.
Caveat: Poem #2372 “Historiology”
ㅁ They said the past is done. It's all immutable, and there's no point in dwelling there, they said.
– a cinquain.