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By: Shodo
Comments: 5
Dear Friends,
This post is about the August 12 day/night at the farm, involving afternoon work, potluck, ceremony, and stargazing/meteor shower. Here’s the full description. Starts mid-afternoon, goes into the night, come and go as you like.
This is my first time to offer the actual work of Mountains and Waters Alliance: a ceremony connecting humans with plants, earth, water, sky, all beings – for the well-being of the earth. It’s embedded in a day of things we do often, potluck and land care, and something new, the meteor shower, an opportunity worth sharing.
In a way this is a response to the climate crisis, to the wildfires and heat domes and all of that frightening and uncomfortable news. In another way, it’s just finding a way to live in harmony within our family, all beings.
I hope you can come, if you’re near. Many people have come and gone here. This summer we’ve been quiet – no retreats or workdays, just one party at my birthday. The next few events will be online, and then some retreats this fall and winter.
Soon I’ll post the other things that are coming up. And I hope your summer is being as beautiful as the one we’re having here.
Shodo
I am arriving at 2:00 or 2:30 and leave at about 9:00. I have some physical limitations regarding work practice, but I will bring a native plant and put it in where you prefer. I have the poem entitled “Stopping for the Night on the High Plateau” which I will email to you.
Thanks. I look forward to seeing you. Can you tell me what the plant is? I will read the poem soon, it’s arrived.
I am thinking about bringing a native wildflower plant that is shade tolerant and attractive to bumblebees and other pollinators. Something like Hairy Wood Mint, Giant Solomon’s Seal or Bee Balm/Wild Bergamot. I am not attached to having something there of which I am proud. For me it is a humble enactment of land care without giver, gift or receiver.
I did a retreat with you four years ago. I recently had been thinking about visiting the land again. So this came at a good time for me. I plan on coming. I will probably send a poem. It will most likely be Zen in nature.
I am already on your Email list.
Peace
Happy to have you back. Let me know your arrival and departure times. Look forward to seeing you.