Here I am pulling up some nice onions
in May of 2007.
Pulling Onions
636. Chaos breaks its own rules to allow Order to play.
358. Gratefully, shit happens!
676. The ten thousand things are more enchanting than the Silent One.
427. Walking needs earth, space, and the walker.
372. Sometimes, just one 'thing' is critical because twenty other 'things' are just so.
633. Take the time to melt into the Details.
296. Gardening is a kind of deadheading - keeping us from going to seed.
674. Don't interfere, be still, and listen to the litanies of bees.
106. Tooth and nail, and the stench of a dead animal on the wind.
96. When life gives you onions, it stinks.
670. A rake is spaces held together by steel.
680. In the student's mind there are few possibilities, in the teacher's mind there are many; but only time to realize very few.
Pulling Onions by Mike Garofalo
Over 680 quips, one-liners, sayings, and "insights" from an old gardener.
When I walked this morning I listened to Ken Cohen's lectures on Daoism. He suggests that gardening is one of the contemplative mind-body Daoist arts leading to insight, enlightenment, enchantment and compassion.
I really enjoyed #670!
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Matt
I practice string figures (http://www.egreenway.com/string/index.htm). I recall a quote there, from an Irish firsherman, that "A net is holes held together by string." The Tao Te Ching includes a chapter about the value of emptiness as a source of creative possibilities.
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