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To Meditate To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem. To meditate means to observe. Your smile proves it. It proves that you are be...

I love what Gary Snyder says about poetry and meditation : A year or so later, in Kyoto, I asked my teacher Oda Sesso Roshi, "Sometime...

An interesting conversation with a dear friend has had me thinking for a few weeks about mystical experience . And one of the things that I...

This. Ritual is not only about entertainment. It is not only a pleasant pastime or an opportunity to socialize. It is not even simply a psyc...

A part of my daily practice, believe it or not, is my drive to and from work. I have a choice of routes, but I always drive along the fey-p...

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In the district dedicated to Columbia, the weather can turn on a dime. (OK, you have to go back to the 1800s to find Columbia on a dime and...

Views unfold along paths. A common pond shape in Japanese gardens, for example, is roughly in the shape of the character for "heart....

Landscape Guy came over yesterday to walk the garden with me and make plans for this year. It's hard to believe that we began working t...

I should post more tonight, but there are a handful of my best friends putting themselves on the line for collective bargaining, the America...

Every garden is based on affinity for and knowledge of the ground, on true intimacy and kinship with your home soil that comes not only from...

It began to snow heavily here within the last couple of hours and I've been out on the porch every couple of minutes, simply watching an...

As a part of my daily practice, I ground and make contact with the cold, red, Virginia clay upon which my little cottage is built. I twine ...

We know what the animals do, what are the needs of the beaver, the bear, the salmon, and other creatures, because long ago men married them ...

As regular readers know , it's important to my spiritual practice to be in active relationship with a specific piece of land, rather tha...

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It's the first really raw day of the season, even though we are, still, a few weeks out from the Winter Solstice. Last night, I tucked ...

In Medicine for the Earth , shaman Sandra Ingerman says: To heal the [E]arth . . . you must connect with the elements, the plants, the ani...

Sun in Pisces and Gemini Ascendent, I have all of the signs in the Zodiac that look in two directions. As a result, I can often see both si...

I know that I'm a bit of a broken record (now there's a term G/Son's generation won't get) about this, but one of the most ...