Lifting Mist
I woke with my life cloaked in mist. Pneumonia in its last stages of cling. I buttoned up and walked up to the lakes, huffing and puffing, hoping to watch the mist rise over the water and my mood with it. I came late – the mist had lifted. The cats asked to be caressed […]
FLOW: the film
Sarah Childress made this film at Yellow Bird last year.Starring ‘Jonathan’ as the man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjr_XoaoaCU&feature=youtu.be
Hannah’s Garden
Hannah came two weeks ago and left today for her next wwoofing stop, an apiary in N Carolina. She rescued the garden from my neglect, and finished planting seeds. Among other things. Here she is pressure washing the oak boards I’m cutting up into wedges to make a giant round bench for the lake firepit. […]
Rainbow Dinner
This evening Yellow Bird really delivered. Everything was fresh from the garden, except the olive oil they were fried in. Green beansYellow cherry tomatoes (Coyote)Red tomatoes (Russian)Blue potatoes (Peruvian ?)BasilZucchini (half charred) So many colors – glad I wasn’t eating in the dark. You can almost feel the anti-oxidants (e.g. anthocyanins in the blue pots) […]
More Wabi Sabi
This is a helpful article! http://www.touchingstone.com/Wabi_Sabi.html Tsukubai silver-gelatin print ©Tim Wong A Crow’s Caw silver-gelatin print ©Tim Wong Mystic silver-gelatin print ©Tim Wong
Fruit Trees
Mulberry by the Airstream Mulberry fruit I have tried planting pears, peaches, nectarines, apples, plums, and I have never had a single fruit off any of them. One nectarine survives, bent and crippled, and all its fruit end up as dried black mummified corpses. All the others have been ravaged by deer and especially goats. […]
Working Meditation
Does one need to sit in order to meditate? No. Even within Zen there is ‘walking meditation’. But it raises the question of what specifically is the point of sitting. And whether its goals could be achieved in another way, perhaps even more effectively. What are its goals? Undoubtedly there are many opinions here, but […]
