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Pebble on the Tongue: Fork in a Brazilian Street

November 14, 2022

A BBC reporter on the street in Brazil as national elections approached, asked a clear-eyed passerby what he made of the choice before him (the incumbent, Jair Bolsonaro, or Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva).  He replied:

             “Lula is certainly not the gateway to Paradise, but he is the way out of Hell.”

The traveler does well to demystify a fork in the road.  A path out of suffering or peril – however homely –  has much to say for it.

A fork in the road invites the traveler’s choice – that majestic capacity that makes us human – sometimes without markings about what lies ahead.  Then come into play powers of intuition that can betray even the savviest traveler, who may at last be driven to pray that some merciful soul would come along to serve as guide.  It is an accumulation of these simple choices that come to compose a life’s journey or traipse.  Poets and sages have pondered this supreme moment common to us all, few as elegantly as Robert Frost from his ‘yellow wood’. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44272/the-road-not-taken       photo credit:pxhere

Written by Jonathan Larson

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