Wow.  A day after I post about the World Cup, the vagaries of Tao are revealed to the fullest.  The English clearly outplayed the US on Saturday but Robert Green the English goalkeeper let through an improbable score that allowed the US to escape with a tie, sparking much consternation across Albion.  For me it brought to mind these lines from Zhuangzi:

Joy and anger, sorrow and delight, hope and regret, doubt and ardor,
diffidence and abandon, candor and reserve: it’s all music rising out
of emptiness, mushrooms appearing out of mist. Day and night come and
go, but who knows where it all begins? It is! It just is! If you
understand this day in and day out, you inhabit the very source of it
all.

Green seemed to instinctively embrace these sentiments in his own comments after the game:

“It’s about being steady and taking the rough with the smooth but that’s life as a goalkeeper…”

Might be a bit hard to do with millions of people calling for his scalp back home….

Oh well… Way is vast…