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The Goddess(es) and the Green Tomatoes
When someone tells me I need to see the Divine I can get anxious that they mean I’m supposed to see whatever that person thinks is “the Divine.” I don’t think anyone ever should be required to do so by anybody else. I am, however, all for being reminded to see the divine if such exhortation is to look on whatever I encounter with the most gratitude and compassion and wonder I can muster.
Here: two kinds of tomatoes with two versions of the goddess (Tara and Uma (a/k/a Parvati)). I had only a large tomato or two per week throughout the summer; with the equinox passing, the vines are for some inexplicable reason now abundant. I will either be making a good sauce in October or pickling green tomatoes, depending on how soon we get a frost. Or perhaps both.
Signs Around Town
Do you know who is growing and transporting your food? How about your clothes? What about home furnishings and electronics? Sometimes we cannot avoid consuming things that were created under dangerous and harmful conditions, but we can be progressively more aware and thoughtful in our consumption if we put our mind and will into it.
Peace and light, E — Posted with WordPress for BlackBerry.
Editing Gertrude Stein
“She” is a whole lot better than “he” in this context, but why use a pronoun at all?
State of the Garden (Gratitude Practice)
From left to right, pak choi, spinach, baby turnip, new onion, coriander
Statuary Around Town
I put out to the curb some ceramic lady statuary left behind by a house mate who moved out years ago. So far no one has taken them–but people are looking at them when they walk past the house.
