tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post9135150398687606755..comments2024-03-01T06:20:29.087+00:00Comments on qualia and other wildlife: the quiet revolutionrosellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-32054953803035545382011-06-22T09:26:10.347+01:002011-06-22T09:26:10.347+01:00Claire - hello and how lovely to hear from you! So...Claire - hello and how lovely to hear from you! So glad you now have a garden.<br /><br />And big thanks for that lead, above - how interesting! Will check it out. And Manjusvara and Ananda of Wolf at the Door both contributed pieces to my creative writing sourcebook (as did Ken Jones)!<br /><br />Enjoy your garden. Somewhere on this blog is a post about loving hornets! - you might enjoy that too...<br /><br />With love<br /><br />Rosellerosellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-25601644496461070432011-06-21T22:28:31.095+01:002011-06-21T22:28:31.095+01:00Hi Roselle, this really struck a chord with me - w...Hi Roselle, this really struck a chord with me - we've just moved house, and have our own garden for the first time... on a Highland Sangha retreat back in March, one person brought along a poem which she had seen in the Herald, with the tagline "Is cultivating one's garden the ultimate wisdom?"<br />http://www.heraldscotland.com/poetry-30th-july-2010-1.1044475<br />It turns out that the poet is a Triratna Buddhist Community mitra, and wrote the poem at a Wolf at the Door retreat at Dhanakosa... <br /><br />We are enjoying herbs and salads from the garden, and the chance to touch the earth.<br /><br />Happy summer solstice!<br /><br />With much metta,<br /><br />Claire MartinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-42850810646358176992011-06-10T16:22:32.110+01:002011-06-10T16:22:32.110+01:00Hello Sarah C and welcome! Pleased to see your com...Hello Sarah C and welcome! Pleased to see your comments. And you're quite right re rapeseed oil; though I'm personally delighted that the people who are working the south-facing hillside opposite ours (who also run a rather lovely restaurant) are growing olives as well as fruit trees such as almonds and cherries specifically to suit our climate, grown in a local agroforestry centre.rosellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00971482422276765335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5055598777203654547.post-84377354081855888572011-06-10T14:47:44.178+01:002011-06-10T14:47:44.178+01:00I agree entirely - with the thought-garden as well...I agree entirely - with the thought-garden as well as the literal garden. There are lots of easy ways to start approaching life in this way. I've embarked upon a few simple creative steps of my own of late, which help tend the internal garden and re-evaluate and as far as the literal garden revolution is concerned, long live your own veggies (dressed in beautiful, locally pressed, golden, rapeseed oil rather than olive oil)!Sarah Cnoreply@blogger.com