First robin brings luck. Shadows lengthen in the dirt, Tree branches spread wide.
Blog Archives
Spring 2014
Spring has come to the Retreat, with all of it’s glorious wind and night/day temperature changes. Fortunately, none of this stops the caretakers from trimming trees, placing plants back outside and cleaning the outside like busy bees. The spider plants…
Tagged with: bonsai, Buddhist, gardening, Kyoto, retreat, spider plants, spring, the Retreat, trees, watering, weather, wind, wood
Posted in Gardening and Nature, Informaitional
Posted in Gardening and Nature, Informaitional
Japanese Garden-Hermann Park, Houston Texas
I rarely do a second report on any of the locations presented here at the Retreat. This is a special occasion. While Hermann Park in Houston Texas was highlighted months ago because a Retreat member was moving to Houston, I…
Tagged with: azalea, Chiba, community, Daimyo Style, harmony, Hermann Park, Houston, Japanese Garden, Ken Nakajima, literati, nature, pathway, peace, shrine, simplicity, squirrel, strolling garden, tea house, Terunobu Nakai, Texas, trees, walking meditaition, water
Posted in Locations
Posted in Locations
One Voice
Grass grows among cracks, Wind blowing moves leaves and chaff. Once a green sea gone. Rolling thunderheads of black- One voice against future tide.
Tagged with: Dr. Seuss, environmentalism, forest, harmony, Lorax, moral play, nature, Once-ler, Onceler, simplicity, spring, strength, symbology, Tanka, Theodor Seuss Geisel, trees, Truffula
Posted in Poetry
Posted in Poetry
Apple of the Orient
Persimmon sits ripe Juice barely dry upon lips. Refreshing wind blows.
Falling Water
Falling Water, one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s three great projects, was designed and built in the southwestern Pennsylvania Mountains between 1936 and 1939. Utilizing aspects of Japanese architecture, Falling Water was designed to combine the living area of the residents…
Northern Entrance
Sometimes leaving home for the first time can be difficult. This week’s retreat is the mountains of southern Montana and the northern gateway to Yellowstone National Park. A long-term visitor to the Retreat will be spending the summer there away…
Tagged with: Gardiner, journey, Montana, mountain, National Park, nature, North Entrance, Northern Entrance, reflection, retreat, trees, water, Yellowstone
Posted in Locations
Posted in Locations
Roots of Wisom
Roots flow like water Diving deep and spreading wide Wisdom etched in time
Nian Xióng Hall 