Kick the World, Break Your Foot

‘Talk does not cook rice’. That Asian aphorism, carried across centuries and continents, coyly offers wisdom, with a knowing smile, capped off with wink.

‘Kick the World, Break Your Foot’ offers hundreds of these timeless nuggets of advice, adorned with wit and brevity. They variously offer piercing admonishment, cautious, and encouragement, yet always with a nod to human nature’s endearing quirks. Like this: Straightened too much / crooked as ever. The Buddha himself would hear the voice of his wise grandma saying, sonny, you make something worse by trying to fix it.

The more prescient the advice, the harder it can be to accept. (Who wants to be told they’ve been doing something badly?) But the wisdom of these haiku-like aphorisms is passed along as gently and softly as the brushstrokes of a master Asian watercolorist. So, advice may never be more welcome than when you browse this collection of ageless gems.

Author Biography

Asa S. Wagner is a playwright, novelist, and photographer living in Vermont, USA. He recently wrote and directed ‘The British Play’, which was produced on stage in San Francisco at California College of the Arts. He nears completion of a forthcoming novel, ‘A Potentially Hazardous Affair’, even as other book projects teem in his head. This is his first book.

John D. Wagner is a poet, Young Adult novelist, non-fiction writer, and photographer who lives in New Mexico, USA. He works for a boutique investment bank, matching buyers and sellers of businesses; he also frequently writes articles and books on mergers and acquisitions. This is his twenty-fourth book.