u/zhynn

I am looking for advice on how to sell my old ford camper van. It is not in perfect shape, but it is usable. Posting on FB marketplace is miserable, I was wondering if anyone had any tips or tricks about where to post my van.

Also, I am curious about what information you think is most useful to prospective buyers? Obviously it has a lot of miles, but maybe there is other info that is useful?

Thanks in advance (and feel free to delete if you think this is too close to an advertising post).

We want to get into biking as a family, but our 10 year old (she's little, <50 lbs) is not developmentally able to bike on her own and I am looking for options. Obviously we could do a trailer, but are there some other interesting options out there for co-riding or... ?

thanks for the help!

A friend and I are doing a Dao De Jing book club where we read lots of different translations (and at the same time are putting together our own adaptations). Today my friend ran across the translation by Witter Bynner (pronounced "witter binner"), a 20th century American poet.

I had no idea who Witter Bynner was. He translated a bunch of Chinese poetry (including the Dao De Jing). Given how beautiful this translation is, I am really surprise that I haven't bumped into it before.

I think that his book of Chinese Translations is the best one, as it includes everything, but you can also get the raw text from Terebess, and the Jade Mountain (poetry from the Tang Dynasty) is on Archive.org.

Highly recommended, it's one of my favorites so far.

• Terebess: https://terebess.hu/english/tao/bynner.html
• Jade Mountain: https://archive.org/details/jademountainchin00heng/mode/2up

Here is Chapter 1 to entice you:

Existence is beyond the power of words
To define:
Terms may be used
But are none of them absolute.
In the beginning of heaven and earth there were no words,
Words came out of the womb of matter;
And whether a man dispassionately
Sees to the core of life
Or passionately
Sees the surface,
The core and the surface
Are essentially the same,
Words making them seem different
Only to express appearance.
If name be needed, wonder names them both:
From wonder into wonder
Existence opens.