Tag: meditation
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finding spaciousness
Don’t forget toslow downevery oncein a while the afternoon sunonly lasts so long and the chorescan wait don’t forget to feelhow you feel sometimesits so easyto get swept awayby the future in spite of the present which is really all we havei don’t knowsometimes i ramble but right nowit feels goodjust to breathe.
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tl;dr: make stuff, have fun
Hi there, it’s been a while. I’ve been journaling off and on for some time now. In May of last year, some friends of mine started The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. I had heard of it before, and had always been interested in doing it “some day”, so this appeared to be the perfect…
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The Kid Calico Blog, as an entity of its own, is hungry for knowledge and understanding
I keep putting off starting my blog in earnest. The perfectionist in me wants to start at the beginning, but to find the beginning has thus far in my life been a futile attempt. The beginning of anything at all, when you really get down to it, is impossibly difficult to find. So this blog,…
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from time to time
How We Learn I forgive the versionOf me who I was Who refused toMake decisions WhoLet the tideCarry him(Nearly let the sea bury him) WhoNever raised the sailsSparked the engineRaised an oar WhoWent onlyWith the tide Almost forgotHow to try It’s oooooKay You’ve got toLearn some way We all go astrayFrom time to time
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a lotus for you, a Buddha to be
Here is part of a sketch for a larger piece, involving circuit patterns. It’s been on hold for a while but maybe I’ll come back to it soon. I could say some other stuff too, but I’m running a marathon, not a track meet.
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sit
This is a sketch for a piece I would like to finalize at some point, but I also like the look of it as it is. Sitting meditation is foundational in my life, I am very grateful to the teachers I have learned from and for the retreats in which I have participated. If I…
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SEND IT
Here’s a little motivational image for this Monday evening. I mentioned I’m a fan of sitting meditation. It helps me to relax my body and mind, and it allows me to know more about myself. What happens when I just stop? Like a tightly wound rope, breathing through a sitting session helps me to let…
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here’s a thought
This is from something I wrote in my notebook a few months ago while sitting on the beach in Oregon. What is it that people talk about? I mean, beyond the words, what are they saying? The sky is blue, the waves are roaring, I am alive and I am writing of what I know.…
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hangry
In 2015 I spent a few months on a Permaculture farm in the North of Thailand, before heading to Thich Hat Hanh’s Thai Plum Village for the last ten days of my visa. This led to three months at a Zen Center in South India, which led to a series of ten-day retreats and the…
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rest on the breeze
Note to self: Sometimes it’s best to just let the wind finish what it’s doing before you make any attempts at putting down roots. You will learn to find stillness in uncertainty, and bliss in not knowing. You’re learning to see yourself and the world for what they really are, and that takes time. There…