Today's reflection·04 July MMXXVI·New again tomorrow
On stillness
One quiet idea, held in three traditions. The same theme all day, turned over at midnight.
01 · The beginning
Spring
Taste, and everything still ahead of you. The work is bad and you make it anyway. Pure potential, no proof yet.
02 · The practice
Summer
The long, green middle. Reps nobody claps for. This is where skill quietly catches up to taste.
03 · The editing
Autumn
Harvest and letting go in the same breath. The work gets better here, mostly by getting smaller.
04 · The stillness
Winter
The fallow season I used to fear. Nothing visible grows, and that is the point. Rest, refill, listen.
The journal·Thinking things through, in public
Notes from the valley
- 13 Jun The Only Thing in Your Hands On letting go
- 11 Jun Your choice is a smaller field than you think On karma yoga
- 02 Jun The life in front of you is not a waiting room On acceptance
- 25 May We complicate it so we don't have to do it On simplicity
- 18 May Taste arrives before skill, and that's the hard part On craft