Exploring the connection between gardening and spirituality:
http://www.cbc.ca/video/news/audioplayer.html?clipid=1533291134
Ah, you posted this when I was out of town last month and I just found it. The podcast seems to be playing a bit sporadically for some reason. Can you give us a jist?
I find myself thinking spiritual thoughts in a garden. Being close to nature, and tending it, feels like experiencing a a part of the Great Whatever. ;) Being in a garden makes me slow down and become meditative. Anywhere natural can do that: the forest, the beach, the mountains. I guess that the difference between untended nature and a garden is that in a a garden, marvelous details are purposefully arranged right before you.
It's a series of interviews, so hard to summarize, but it touches quite a bit on the spiritual side of watching life grow from nothing (seeds), and also on the way a gardener learns patience and humility waiting for things to grow.
I found a downloadable mp3 here - you can try again to click on it and listen to it, or right-click it and save it:
http://podcast.cbc.ca/mp3/tapestry_20100627_34387.mp3
I totally get that.
Seeds really aren't nothing. They are the intentions of the past that move into the future. Whatever thing we do in this life may become a seed that will grow again later. If we want good in the future, we have to make good seeds now.
Quote from: Opsanus tau on October 01, 2010, 03:38:06 PM
Seeds really aren't nothing. They are the intentions of the past that move into the future.
I like that... have a :twinkie: :)
Why, thank you! :-*
If only twinkies were more... organic? We need a plant-based twinkie!
Hmm... there are a few fruits that might stand in, but it's originally from the twinkie quote in your signature. Besides, a twinkie is something that is ephemerally enjoyable* but that one shouldn't over-indulge in - seems to fit.
*actually, I don't find them tasty. I'd rather have a banana, which is kind of similar.
I've never liked Twinkies, to be honest. There's some bleah flavor in them that turns me off. However, in Junior High I was addicted to Suzy Q (http://www.hostesscakes.com/suzyqs.asp)s, mostly because they were offered in the school lunchroom. (I was supposed to be spending my lunch money on the hot meal, which was never vegetarian.)