The tagline I used in various places, and probably still do here and there, is
Treading a line between Dao and Dow.
I like the play on the sound of the two words (pronounced identically where I come from – maybe not where you are) and I like the balance between the physical and spiritual worlds. And I like that it is short.
Today I took a peek at The Online Photographer. I often go there for a breath of fresh air, to read something about photography and read what people who are polite and well-rounded have to say.
I saw a comment that led to a community website for photographers to put their portfolios. I recognised the site but hadn’t visited it for years. I thought I might have an account, and I have and so I was able to log in. I looked at my profile and saw this that I wrote a long time ago and forgot about:
Dow Dao Dow Dao
Have you any wool
Yes, sir, yes sire,
But I gave it away.
It is, of course, a play on the rhyme, probably several hundred years old, that goes:
Baa, baa, black sheep,
Have you any wool?
Yes, sir, yes, sir,
Three bags full;
One for the master,
And one for the dame,
And one for the little boy
Who lives down the lane.
There is something pointed and contrary, disobedient, and transcendent in my version, and I like that.