may all who journey…

 

nameless red rose

One day the Buddha held up a flower in front of an audience of 1,250 monks and nuns. He did not say anything for quite a long time. The audience was perfectly silent. Everyone seemed to be thinking hard, trying to see the meaning behind the Buddha’s gesture. Then, suddenly, the Buddha smiled. He smiled because someone in the audience smiled at him and at the flower. . . . To me the meaning is quite simple. When someone holds up a flower and shows it to you, he wants you to see it. If you keep thinking, you miss the flower. The person who was not thinking, who was just himself, was able to encounter the flower in depth, and he smiled. That is the problem of life. If we are not fully ourselves, truly in the present moment, we miss everything.

 

                                                       – Thich Nhat Hanh, in Peace Is Every Step

 

today we have connection!

today we have finally got our internet connection working. took about 60 days and several companies that couldnt before we found one that could. so now what to do with this new found freedom?

 

hill of tara tree

 

i love rock n roll

 

remember cooking is a sacred art

 

 

say yes. “yes”

“…I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.” Ulysses J. Joyce

 

yes

yellow waiting by the sea

“i must go down to the seas again” -Sea Fever by John Masefield

true

“Everything you can imagine is real.”
― Pablo Picasso