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This week’s Community Dinner: Greek! — and 25 folks crowded into one tiny living room

Why didn’t we just move over to the larger Overhill house instead? Not sure. I guess we like being crowded together. Huge amounts of food after what seemed like an all day prep, each of the six podmates responsible for one dish. Here’s to the babaganoush!   All ages, from 13 months to little kids, […]

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Rainer Maria Rilke: “Those who create are like you. They long for the eternal.”

poetrychaikhana.com For your sake poets sequester themselves By Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 – 1926) English version by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy   For your sake poets sequester themselves, gather images to churn the mind, journey forth, ripening with metaphor, and all their lives they are so alone… And painters paint their pictures only that […]

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Richard Mabey: “Plants are agents of their own life forces”

Anyone who has ever ingested a psychotropic plant recognizes both the emotional/ mental/perceptual/spiritual power of that plant as well as how it is embedded in and interwoven with a vast visible and invisible community of plants that breathe and laugh and cry and sing as they go through continuous transmutation of form forever — this […]

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