“Both poetry and planting were increasingly truer expressions of the same thing: reaching for the unknown & being in relationship to the world.”
— William Stanley Merwin
https://emergencemagazine.org/story/the-poet-and-the-palm-tree/
concentration
Little by little you must train yourself for life, for happiness. You have to realize happiness is not something found at the end of a road. You have to understand that it is here, now. Mindfulness practice is not an evasion or an escape. It means entering vigorously into life — with the strength generated by the energy of mindfulness. Without this freedom and concentration, there is no happiness.
in gratitude
Earth collapses into water, water into fire, fire into air. Air to pure consciousness.