Month: August 2017

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Beautiful Places

“August”

Gift from Vancouver for someone’s 18th birthday:)
Beautiful purple box his brother brings over to share –
No Sugar diet on temporary hold as life’s too short? If you must monitor sugar intake then good news is –
Purdys have NO SUGAR versions.

When the blackberries hang
swollen in the woods, in the brambles
nobody owns, I spend

all day among the high
branches, reaching
my ripped arms, thinking

of nothing, cramming
the black honey of summer
into my mouth; all day my body

accepts what it is. In the dark
creeks that run by there is
this thick paw of my life darting among

the black bells, the leaves; there is
this happy tongue.

– A poem by Mary Oliver

It’s hard to find those blackberries for the very berry plate – Blackberries !
Should we go berry picking into the woods?

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Beautiful People Beautiful Places Yoga

Niroga

What I Have Learned So Far

Meditation is old and honorable, so why should I
not sit, every morning of my life, on the hillside,
looking into the shining world? Because, properly
attended to, delight, as well as havoc, is suggestion.
Can one be passionate about the just, the
ideal, the sublime, and the holy, and yet commit
to no labor in its cause? I don’t think so.

All summations have a beginning, all effect has a
story, all kindness begins with the sown seed.
Thought buds toward radiance. The gospel of
light is the crossroads of — indolence, or action.

Be ignited, or be gone.

– Mary Oliver

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When you enchant people, your goal is not to make money from them or to get them to do what you want,
but to fill them with great delight.
– Guy Kawasaki