Sangha of Auspicious Companions

August 5, 2021

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What Do Gardens Mean?

“This much is clear: people calling themselves artists and who are called artists by others — are making gardens and calling it art, or are making art in which the making of gardens is part of what they are calling art. And for a very long time, people who may not call themselves anything, have been making gardens that other people call art. Further, it would be greatly surprising if all this were not to continue. And given this time of profound meddling with nature and the dreadful results we are experiencing, the garden might be, in all its forms, the place best suited for calling us back to our senses — a role of gardens long established and held dear, whether consciously or not.” In this lovely, introspective piece, Richard Whittaker dives straight into the heart of a powerful, and curious question: What do gardens mean? { read more }

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What do gardens mean to you? Take a moment to capture your spontaneous response to this question in some form.

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August 4, 2021

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Reframing Our Relationship to That We Don’t Control

A palliative care physician, Dr. B.J. Miller brings design sensibility to the art of living until we die. He learned to see life as a “creative enterprise” and largely redesigned his own physical presence after an accident in which lightning struck him with 11,000 volts, leaving him without both of his legs and part of one arm. Tune in to his wisdom on how we can reframe our relationship to our imperfect bodies and all that we don’t control. { read more }

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For more inspiration, join this Saturday’s Awakin Call with BJ Miller: ‘How Not to Waste a Good Existential Crisis.’ More details and RSVP info here. { more }

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August 3, 2021

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Live a Life Worth Living

“On 19 March 2018, almost five years after being diagnosed with Stage IV colon cancer, thirty-eight-year-old Julie Yip-Williams died, leaving behind a husband and two daughters. Her early years had been anything but easy. Born blind in Vietnam, at two months of age she was almost euthanised on the orders of a grandmother who deemed her to be defective; years later, as an older child, she sailed to Hong Kong with her family and hundreds of other refugees in search of a more peaceful life, eventually settling down in the US where her life improved drastically. She was soon given partial sight by a surgeon, studied at Harvard, and became a successful lawyer, but then, in her thirties, she was struck down by the illness that would kill her. It was then that she began to write what would become a posthumously published memoir, The Unwinding of the Miracle. In July 2017, a year before she passed away, Yip-Williams wrote the following letter to her young daughters.” { read more }

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Read an excerpt from “Unwinding of the Miracle,’ here. { more }

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August 2, 2021

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How to Recapture Your Imagination

“If you had the spyglass, you could see anything in the world. If you had the spyglass, there was nothing from which you couldn’t glean information. It had mesmeric power over the people. It had been created by a king who gave it to his daughter, to be used for the strangest of courtships. If you wished to marry her, you had to achieve only one thing. You had to disappear. You had to become a magician of the invisible.” In this excerpt from his new book, Martin Shaw, a celebrated storyteller, draws on myth and metaphor to direct our gaze away from the screen and toward the wonder of the world. { read more }

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For more inspiration, watch this short film, “The Lindworm”, in which Martin Shaw narrates an ancient tale that poses the question: What have we exiled that returns to us in fury? { more }

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August 1, 2021

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Moon Tree

“In 1971, more than four hundred tree seeds were collected and ensconced in an aluminum canister. They were chosen from across the United States: the resinous sweet gum and mud-loving southern loblolly; the northwestern Douglas fir, green and mossy; the sycamore leafing over mid-western flood plains; and the coastal redwood, stretching along the sandy loam of the Pacific. For all the preparations involved, NASA’s plan was simple at its heart: let’s see how they handle this journey.” { read more }

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Every life form we encounter holds hidden stories. Take a moment to consider the multidimensional mystery of this. If interested, you can learn more about what happened to the seeds that went to the moon here. { more }

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July 31, 2021

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Clarksville Elementary School: We Are the World

All 500 students from Clarksville Elementary School in Indiana worked with their music teacher over the course of the pandemic school year to create this heartwarming music video to showcase their talents and to bring smiles to the world. The exuberance and enthusiasm of these young singers remind us that they are the world, they are the future, and we can all make a better day when we stand together as one. { read more }

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Watch this video with children in your life and sing along together, sharing the spirit of the children and their joyous music.

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July 30, 2021

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Becoming an Ancestor

“Did you know that we’re all on our way to becoming someone’s ancestor? It’s true. We’re all future dead people, and 100 years from now, someone like me will come looking for you. I
know this for a fact because that’s usually have at least one in each generation, much like Buffy the Vampire Slayer. We’re a bit obsessive about what we do.You say you have no interest in family history or genealogy? Perhaps you never knew your biological family. Maybe you’re estranged from them. Or you have zero interest in learning about your ethnic heritage. Regardless, on your way to becoming an ancestor, you have lived, yes? You have stories
about the paths you’ve forged, the roads taken–and not taken– and your dreams. In the future, someone like me will want to know you. My life might be changed knowing that you existed.” Genealogist Natalie Zett shares the compelling story of what sparked her interest in family history… { read more }

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What does the thought of being a “future ancestor” bring up for you? What does it inspire in you? For more from Natalie Zett, tune in to this in-depth conversarsation with her: “Family Stories, Timeless Connections.” { more }

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