Judith Browning

Without music no discipline can be perfect,
for there is nothing without it.
For the very universe is held together
by a certain harmony of sounds,
and the heavens themselves are made to revolve
by the modulation of harmony.
Music moves the feelings and changes the emotions.
Every word we speak, every pulsation in our veins,
is related by musical rhythms
to the powers of harmony.

Isadore of Seville
(?? To 636, Roman scholar, theologian, archbishop of Seville)

I didn't get any thing done towards topping the pergola with bamboo but I did encourage things that were already growing there to climb....virginia creeper and passionflower tried their best.
I'm always amazed how passion flower just keeps blooming and bearing fruit all summer into fall with no extra water other than rain.

There was a good chance of rain today but I watered my seed beds anyway...good germination if I water twice a day every day🙄

We are gradually digging sweet potatoes and peanuts...both disappointing harvests so far.

I doubt we grow peanuts again...they were not happy in our clay soil.
I'm determined to grow sweet potatoes though.
I think the ones in the garden bed did better than last year...still small and they were mostly purples....other years have had very large ones.
The orange ones, I grew most in tubs so I would be sure to have some good ones to grow slips from next year but they are smaller than usual and have scurf.

I hate to lose either variety but won't use the tubs again for them (because of scurf) and need to get some fertility back in the garden soil before next season....wood ashes helped but not enough..

Still getting several long beans a day....will definitely grow more next year on our two hoop houses that we don't cover with plastic anymore, just, sometimes shadecloth.

nice young chicory leaves and soon some thinnings of kale, turnip, mustard and arugula....have not got the beds ready for transplants....these were sown directly.

Time to see if the sunchokes made...some years the grubs leave us a few to ferment.

It's that time of year where spider webs are everywhere....this one is in a spot we sit regularly on the front porch and almost everyday I walk into it...then she patiently restrings everything by the next day😊

Still dry but according to this map we are in an oasis of ' not a drought' just 'very dry'.

A blacklight flash light is on my list before next indigo season!

I have one pot full left that is budded up...can indigo take a frost at all or should I bring the pot indoors?...does it look far enough along to make seed?

I have one plant in a garden bed that I thought would be for seed but like you mention, even with watering, it looks pretty bad.

Who wrote this play
in which we enter
laugh, cry and exit
according to a script?
No god or saint could write it.
Only your own mind
could write this story.

~Chae-ung Kim
(Korean Buddhist Teacher)

Those who are skilled and peaceful,
who seek the good;
may they be able, straightforward
of gentle speech and not proud.
May they be content, unburdened,
with their senses calmed.
May they be wise, not arrogant
and without desire for the possessions of others.
May all beings be happy.
May all live in safety and joy.

Metta Sutta
(trad. 400-350 BCE, part of a discourse of the Buddha on kindness from the Pali Canon)

favorites change frequently....this is todays'.

INDECISION
by Jeff Foster

Friend, please,
do not try to decide now.
Do not shut any possibility out of your heart. Honor this place of not knowing.

Bow before this bubbling mess of creativity.
Slow down. Breathe.
Sink into wonderment.
Befriend the very place where you stand.
Any decision will make itself, in time.
Any choice will happen when your defenses are down.
Answers will appear only when they are ready.
When the questions have been fully honored and loved.

Do not label this place “indecision.”
It is more alive than that.
It is a place where possibilities grow.
It is a place where uncertainty is sacred.
There is courage in staying close.
There is strength in not knowing.
There is power in doubt.

Friend, please know,
there is simply no choice now.
Except to breathe, and breathe again,
and trust this Intelligence beyond mind.

A decision will grow, but for today, nourish the ground.

thanks all!

Thom, DVD's are a great idea.
At the moment I have only the tech's interpretation of each test and then my gp's agreement or disagreement with same,.

The test line up has been just as you say, starting with pulmonary and heart stuff....we are up to neck and throat.   lungs, heart and thyroid all good.

Phillip, do you just give all that info to a search bar or is there an actual AI medical
site?

Christopher, that:s good to know ...will ask my GP if it's available.

May, that daikon is wonderful!
I rarely get the timing right for them in order to have nice large roots but when it happens they are so good for a fermented pickle and stir fry...maybe next year?

We got a 3" rain on October 2...nothing since but having this well water available has given us the chance to start some beds of fall greens if I water them twice a day.
Eighties and nineties most days and cooling off into the fifties overnight...lovely fall weather.

I see a forecast of drops to 41F and 39F at the end of the week (after a possible rain) so will probably try to cover sweet potatoes to give them a little more time in the ground.
Here on this creek bottom our temps can be a few degrees colder than just a few blocks away.

Ground hog is still fattening up for winter...the ashes keep him(her?)from eating most of the vines other than the growing tips....he/she did a number on the peanuts though so we'll probably dig them before the rain.  
It's odd to me that ground hog is not eating other things...like moringa?

Happiness means feeling you are on the right path every moment.
You don’t need to arrive at the end of the path in order to be happy.
The right path refers to the very concrete ways you live your life in every moment.

Thich Nhat Hanh