{"id":8052,"date":"2017-02-07T11:02:52","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T19:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8052"},"modified":"2017-02-07T12:51:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-07T20:51:46","slug":"promise-of-spring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8052","title":{"rendered":"Promise of Spring…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo courtesy of: ‘Marigold’ by Judy Paris – Flickr
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The \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpromise of Spring<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is really a hope and a prayer, there are no guarantees in linear time as much as we like to pretend there are. Plans we make… do they ever really turn out \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcexactly<\/em>\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the way we imagine? The vagaries of living again and again get in the way of carefully masterminded enterprises. Here\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something you can do\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 along with planning…<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Bring to mind the future, allowing it to be completely indeterminate. Instead of thinking about this or that coming event, see if you can let the unknownness of the future come to the foreground\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Before the rational and the logical, prior to sorting and collecting and the conviction that what we assemble is what is so, a kind of innocence is available. Born in freedom and honesty, it conducts joy and love\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 invite the wholeness of perception into each sense perception and each thought. Let this wholeness deepen beyond observation. You can appreciate whatever arises, seeing each arising as an instance of the time-space interplay. Within seeing there is beauty and light; within hearing there is stillness and meaning. The more you can cherish the treasures that time presents, the more you will have the sense of acting into time and space and acting on behalf of all phenomena. Ultimately, this appreciation can expand to accommodate the transforming wholeness of love.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDynamics of Time and Space\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, p. 331-5<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

MARIGOLD EARLY RAINY FEBRUARY WELCOME SONG<\/strong>
\n\tBy Ken McKeon<\/p>\n

As useless as ice cream
\nIn a dedicated no fun world,<\/p>\n

The marigolds are all aflame today
\nWith bright golden petals fluttering out
\nStiff shakes and crude lifts,
\nThese wrested up from tough green stems,<\/p>\n

Who would truly like anything like that?<\/p>\n

If drunk enough, I surely would,
\nIf I bottled up the chill Spring air,
\nThen gulped it down all morning long,
\nThese crude flowers would tickle up my eyes,
\nAnd I’d lavish them with laughter,
\nI’d grab their shakes and jumps,
\nThe breeze fed boosts of bright
\nColor reddish orange palpability
\nMy fingers rough stroke through
\nLike the popcorn children ravage in their greasy bags.<\/p>\n

Set aside the weighty sky today,
\nAnd the fragile glitter of a crystal cup,
\nMarry my heart and my tongue
\nAs much you ever can,
\nAnd let these flowering sturdy cheerful blooms
\nBe the centrality of brashest joy within your life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcpromise of Spring\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is really a hope and a prayer, there are no guarantees in linear time as much as we like to pretend there are. Plans we make… do they ever really turn out \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcexactly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 the way we … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[136,101,115,40],"tags":[129,115,130],"class_list":["post-8052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-01-general-tsk-discussions","category-future-time","category-opening","category-poetry","tag-future","tag-opening","tag-unknown"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cciforum.dreamhosters.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}