Sunny Sunday, started with Iron Goddess of Mercy Oolong tea in my red cast iron tea pot. Still very warm in the second month of Autumn, very little rain and still having to water the plants.
I am in a great mood two weeks on leave from work. Very few plans gardening as per normal and I am going to get back into doing some glass work as the medium for my April Goddess is glass and it is a number of year since i did any glass work. I have cleaned up the basement room and set up two work areas one for gardening; potting, seedraising and drying and the other for more heavy duty art and craft work that I don’t want to do in my spare room, such as glass work and driftwood, stone and pumice sculptures. This is something I have thought about often but never gotten around to it, I now have all the drift wood, pumice and stones down in the basement and I just need to get steel rods then I will get onto it.
This summer was magnificent and it has stretched out into a mellow, sunny Autumn I think we are going to get a shock when the weather turns but for me it is gifting me with the time to get my garden into order setting the ground work for a beautiful display next summer. I need to get some quotes for work to be done on the property as well so tomorrow morning will be taken up with phone calls to arrange this.
Have just started “Dust and Light” by Carol Berg which calls me back to read some more which gives me the breaks frmr physical work. Time is such a funny thing, every day we have 24 hours but some days our brain expands that time and give a sense on unlimited time and I manage to get lots of things done that I don’t normally just get in and do. Then at other time our brain tells us we don’t have enough time, it contracts time and our state of being is such we just don’t get things done. I am currently in the contraction space and already in just this weekend I have gotten so much done.
I think this quote for Marcus Aurelius’ meditations s going to be my focus
Concentrate every minute like a Roman—like a man—on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes, you can—if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable. You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that’s all even the gods can ask of you.” ― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
And another favourite
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
Blessings to all on this beautiful Autumn day, to those of you in the Northern Hemishpere I hope you are having a bourgeoning Spring day a day in which you can smell the new season's growth.
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