(photo P Volker)
A quote from Mary Oak a local author and teacher who used this little phrase in an email communication and it has grabbed by attention. I have to admit that I need to look up the word evoke in the big old paper dictionary. Evoke – bring or recall to the conscious mind. Oh, that is interesting.
This was in an announcement for a Zoom class entitled “Facing Medical Tribulations with Healing Imagination”. Yea, give me a boatload of that! I might just have to check that out.
I have that all in the mix today along with yesterday’s blog thoughts about the lowly blackberry bramble. I’m swirling and I have no words right now. Some days are like that, fortunately.
The blue sky has some puffy white clouds, a few, coming from the southeast. Looks like plenty of sunshine happening. Off to my walk.
best of days love, Felipé.
I have always thought that nature is present everywhere to teach us the lessons we need to learn… the previous generations, and certain cultures more than others, knew this too… and they lived in accordance to what nature was teaching them… Like we all know the effort it takes to walk the 500 miles, but we are stronger upon arrival… but any farmer knew that before us, as he has been planting seeds in the middle of the winter, and it was in that time of cold and darkness with shorter days that the seeds germinated the new life…
I never paid attention to the blackberries until last year in the Veranda because I live in a city full of buildings where a jar of blackberries jam costs a small fortune (yes, you read it right… it is the most expensive one…)… Marcie and Charlie told me about them, and then looking at the cans for the harvesting… so how could I learn about stubbornness and tenacity?
Yet, we still think this is our imagination… I like to think more that it is our own nature… and there is where we need to return… to our basic human instincts… those things “we know but have forgotten”…
Nature doesn’t rush, though everything is accomplished Loves,
Cris
Cris ~ remember when you were here and we were eating chukar partridge. They are here from the Himalayas just like I suppose these Himalayan blackberries are. Maybe they have had hundred of thousands of years in that harsh environment to learn how to be like they are. I have heard people call both of them evil. They just don’t cooperate like us flatlanders think things should. Well, one way or another, agreed, we have a lot to learn. See you tomorrow, Felipé.x