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In January of this year, I sat down to create a vision board for the coming months. Anyone who has tackled one knows that you’ve got to sit quietly, and listen closely for the voice of your inner being. It may have taken a few hours, but that’s what I did – and I was immediately struck by the differences between last year’s vision board and the one I created for this year.
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Once upon a time … actually, this would be an ideal way to begin the story behind the Blue Willow design of dinnerware because it is an ancient tale. Its origins date back to feudal China. One version involves secret societies and invading marauders while another tells the tale of the early Buddhists who called heaven The City of Willows. The design, originally called Mandarin, features a great willow tree in the foreground, a bridge with three figures on it, and a walled temple in the background. Above a body of water are two doves eternally bound together.
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These days, urban China is made of people, cars, and ubiquitous green scaffolding and yellow cranes flying the red Communist Party flag over construction sites. Everywhere you look, edifices of glass, concrete and stone predominate. By day, construction; through the night, construction. It stops for nothing, not even torrential downpours so heavy that the cab of the crane can’t be seen from the ground.
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Frequenting our downtown Farmer’s Market in the summer is a savory affair, especially if you’re a tad hungry and in need of a jolt of energy, which is where bite-sized fruit samples come in. Enjoy the juicy blast of organic orange, strawberry, cherry, blueberry, plum, peach, or nectarine, and your taste buds will talk you into buying as much as you can afford.
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Native to Chile, the Butterfly Bush (Buddleia globosa) ~ bearing clusters of lavender, white, soft pink, yellow, purple, or cranberry cone-shaped flowers ~ is sure to bring hummingbirds, bees, and butterflies to your garden.
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The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary. ~ Wilhelm Reich
Here is a girl, standing at the end of an alleyway in Chengdu, in the Sichuan province in China, in the early days of the Gregorian year 2010. The longer I look at these photos the more love I feel for her.
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Sometimes, quite often really, I’ve forgotten the simple fact that we’re here to revel in the world, to soak in the awesomeness of it. We’re meant to enjoy the “ride.” Instead, we buckle up, hunker down, and keep our nose to the grindstone. I’d like to ask, instead, that you lift your eyes to the horizon, and walk toward it. Take small steps, if necessary, but find a way to make those innermost desires a reality.
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