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Concord and New Vrindaban
Today’s New York Times travel section has an article about Concord, Massachusetts that describes the important literary figures of the town, both past and present. Of course, the Transcendentalist connections and Walden Pond are the star attractions for most visitors there.
New Vrindaban has a link to the Transcendentalists through Hayagriva das, who was a [...]
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blaze
This blaze was made by state road workers to indicate the placement of a drain pipe under the road. I’ve noticed that the loggers or timber consultants employed by New Vrindaban Community have been using yellow and red plastic ties to mark trees for removal, or to leave standing. The pioneers of this area, such [...]
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Rain Today
Last night we received some much-needed rain. Showers continue this morning.
“Rain, rain, rain! sings the robin
frantically, then flies for cover.”
—-Mary Oliver, from Rain in Ohio
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from “Economy”
“In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick, too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line. . . .
To anticipate, [...]
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A Contemplation Upon Flowers
“Brave flowers–that I could gallant it like you,
And be as little vain . . .
You are not proud, you know your birth,
For your embroider’d garments are from earth . . .”
—-Henry King, Bishop of Chichester
(from bartleby.com)
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To Spring
“To spring belongs the violet”
—-Thos. Aldrich, Petition
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Thoughts on Spring
” ‘I have seen foreign flowers in hot houses of the most beautiful nature, but I do not care a straw for them. The simple flowers of our spring are what I want to see again.
—-John Keats . . .’
People around the world long for the flowers, plants, and colours of a landscape intimate to [...]
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David Sobel on Nature Education
“The formative years of bonding with the earth include three stages of development that should be of primary concern to parents and teachers: early childhood from ages four to seven, the elementary years from eight to eleven, and early adolescence from twelve to fifteen . . . my belief is that environmental education should [...]
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Butterfly Sighting
a black swallowtail (Papilio polyxeres)
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The butterfly’s loping flight
carries it through the country of the leaves
delicately, and well enough to get it
where it wants to go . . .
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For years and years I struggled
just to love my life. And then
the butterfly
rose, weightless, in the wind.
“Don’t love your life
too much,” it said,
and vanished
into the world.”
—-Mary Oliver, from [...]
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Saturday Rain
“When we awoke this morning, we heard the faint deliberate and ominous sound of rain drops on our . . . roof. The rain had pattered . . . and now the whole country wept . . . instead of any bow in the heavens, there was the trill of the tree-sparrow.”
—-Thoreau
(from A Week [...]
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