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treatment-resistant joy
A friend of mine described being in a room full of puppies as exposure to treatment-resistant joy. I laughed initially from the mere image of bouncing balls of fur and manic tails. Then, the cynic in...
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quiet failings
Gardens give us wonderful practice in enjoying the fruits of our failure. The weather here over the weekend was astonishing and much of the time was spent over weeds and under shrubs. The walkway was...
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unmediated passion
The poppies in the garden have me hovering anxiously like a mother hen. It’s the first year all the plants survived and the buds are settled in the leaves like little Easter eggs. As if it wasn’t...
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zucchini teisho
I’m deeply grateful to have a job. Certainly deeply grateful that it is rewarding on many levels despite the long and frequent commutes, the bureaucratic bs and the oft-times idiotic decisions that...
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an inexcusable joy
It came as a surprise. These things always seem to probably because I tend to sit more in blissful ignorance of how things actually work than in bliss that they do work. My excuse for stalling on the...
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in the details
It’s all in the details. Or maybe not. I was relishing the rich prose of one of my most favoured bloggers, Zen Dot Studio, just after returning from my guerrilla gardening incident on Sunday. It...
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slumming in the garden of messy delights
Each year I work away at one more hindrance by setting the intention to let it be. Whatever “it” is, I leave it to be what it is going to be. Well, more accurately, I set the intention to leave it to...
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showing up for salvation
There is something about persisting. Last Spring the vegetable garden looked beyond salvation. But we persisted because we knew somewhere in the thicket of stinging nettles and various noxious growth...
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a purposeful blindness
There’s a purposeful blindness that centers our perception. I went out into the garden that hugs the south side of the house. It tends to be a haven for butterflies, moths, and assorted flying bugs...
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the options offered by suffering
Last week, John Briere was in town giving a lecture on Mindfulness & Trauma. He was quite entertaining, insightful, and very well-versed in the pain of trauma. I appreciated his transparency in...
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hand-wash stones cold
It’s the mantra of this season around the community: Tough winter. Lose everything? I would hope so. Losing everything is the practice, isn’t it? Youth, good health, eternal life – these we know we are...
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paradise in plain sight: lessons from a zen garden by karen maezen miller
In an exchange with Karen Maezen Miller, author of Paradise in Plain Sight, I wrote, “I have Paradise on standby (pending a number of other activities that crowded my schedule).” I suspect that truer...
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