A Ceremonious Tea
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Category Archives: Practice
Welcome 4 – Harmony
Acceptance is dance without judgment, is the higher form of understanding.
Welcome 1 – The Midday Wind
The word migjorn is Catalan for “midday”, and it is the term for the wind that comes down off the mountain. It is a force of nature, that shapes trees and carves stone, and we are in the arms of that wind. Welcome, wind.
stillness assembled
And so I built a small pyramid of peace.
Carnavalesque
It is beautiful to acquire skill – through meditation, through prayer or patience – to simply live with emptiness when it arrives.
The Standing Desk [β] – Day 40
Forty days of rain, forty years in the wilderness, forty days on the mountain; forty years old, forty sons, forty cubits, forty baths, forty days’ fast.
every meal weaves miracle
Every meal weaves Miracle;
water, sun and soil are its threads.
The Standing Desk [α] – Day 14
Two weeks in, I remain happy with the switch to a standing desk, and am considering when to build my “Beta” version.
The Standing Desk [α] – Day 7
My workday has become a workdance!
a dance in the dark
It is a physical law that the slower you move, the more you perceive.
as slow as spring
I begin to mistrust urgency.
sparrow’s flight
She lay like fallen leaves. As if a breeze brushed them, her wings fluttered odd angles; as I watched they reached for my breath, through the glass she thought was air.