Beginner's Heart

Beginner's Heart

May 2011 Archives

the mindfulness of tea ~

Tea is only this: First you heat the water. Then you make the tea. Then you drink it properly. That is all you need to know. -Sen no Rikyū This is just one reason I love tea ~ it can, [...]

teaching, practice and love ~

The muse Terpsichore is known for many things: dances, the harp, education. But  most amazing is that all these things come together in one Muse: supposedly Terpsichore invents them all. Think about it: all of those coming from one head. [...]

reassurance ~

This is the kind of reassurance I need, sometimes — just an enfolding hug… You have to watch the video the whole way through to get the hug part .

angry heart: juggling change & compassion ~

The hardest thing I face daily is juggling. I’m not good at letting things go, in case you haven’t already figured that out . So this whole learning how to love/ beginner’s heart thing is HARD. Far too often I [...]

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changing job descriptions ~
Have you ever watched a new baby? Seriously observed one? Focused on the wide eyes drinking in light (pre-birth is a bit dark...), the mouth twitching towards milk, the tiny fingers curling around support. Like most things in my life, watching a new baby seems a quintessentially Buddhist endeavou

posted 8:10:41pm Jun. 18, 2013 | read full post »

more bees ~
  So it's bees again. AND poetry. Because really ~ why not?? What's more  like June than the hum of bees, their own gently busy music? The poetry is what comes of watching, good Buddhist contemplation ~ Here's John Ciardi's poem, "Bees & Morning Glories": Morning glories, pale as a mist

posted 6:48:59pm Jun. 14, 2013 | read full post »

motes and logs: or, what we don't see...
On the plane coming home from a weekend writer's conference, I sat next to a very nice woman from Austin. She was unbelievably lovely, soft-spoken with a sweet Southern drawl. We talked, as passengers in tiny seats sharing breathing space do, about one thing & another. And I didn't even realise

posted 7:55:34pm Jun. 10, 2013 | read full post »

death of a blue jay ~
I don't want to tell you how much of our retirement fund goes for bird seed. Not to mention bird feeders, suet and the containers to put it in, hummer feeders (and sugar for it -- we make our own not-red 'nectar'), etc. Thankfully my husband is a birdophile too. :) Each spring it's fascinating to

posted 12:12:48pm Jun. 03, 2013 | read full post »

the pressure to conform ~
I've always been insatiably, even dangerously curious. As a child (a pink-cheeked blonde, whose mother too often made her wear pastels...), I took apart lamps, rewiring them (and only rarely shocked myself). I slept with a taxidermied squirrel, because it was real (lumpy, though). I followed bugs

posted 4:42:43pm Jun. 02, 2013 | read full post »


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