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Beginner's Heart
grapevine, blue zones, and everyday practice
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Britton Gildersleeve
This is my unruly garden. To be fair, it’s mostly unruly because I forget it. I get caught up writing/ cooking/ drinking tea/ just vegging (and not the garden kind), and the day is gone. And I actually quite like gardening. Well, maybe that’s not totally true. Sometimes — like w/ exercise? — I like…
living in the web ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
My younger son called me today, asking if I would be in the Northwest early May. The Dalai Lama is speaking in Portland, he told me. On environmentalism and interfaith.I was thoroughly crushed to have to tell him no, I’d be here in the Midwest instead… But I was also touched that he knew I’d…
bees, chocolate mimosas, and attachment ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
If you’ve read this blog more than a couple of times, you know I’m crazy about bees. Actually, about most wildlife (and yep, bees qualify). Starting next month, my patient, long-suffering husband & I are taking a beginning beekeeping class. I’m very stoked… 🙂 In the meantime, given the changes in local climate (a LOT…
a garden, a scholar, a couple of hours ~
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Britton Gildersleeve
Something there is about a garden… Particularly a Chinese garden. With a Chinese scholar’s room overlooking the quiet courtyard, a row of clean brushes awaiting the writer’s hand. Each turn is another perfect vista, an image to be sketched, framed with words and translated to a blank page. In Portland, the Lan Su Chinese Garden…
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