hmmmmmmmmm.......: nice things

hmmmmmmmmm.......: nice things

Sunday, May 30, 2004

nice things

wow, we have had some kitchen machines in the past but nothing beats our latest acquisitions: a crock pot and a bread machine. I used to scoff at bread machines but no longer. this morning we had scrumptious french toast made of yummy bread from the bread machine, and this evening we had delectable pot roast from the crock pot. so delicious!!!! other nice things include our weekly CSA vegetable box, which provided the key ingredient in the fabulous rhubarb cobbler we had for dessert. could life be any better? i seriously doubt it!!! oh and as if that isn't enough lovey is a knitting genius--she is just finishing up my lovely shimmery t-shirt made of variegated blue ribbons, and maybe (maybe) next she will make me this sweater, only in blues & greens:

note the lovely frilly sleeves... yum!
Life definitely could not be any, any, any better. I can't imagine it. And isn't that a nice thing, in itself!

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*The quote in the top bar is from Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, whom I tend to view with some suspcion as a person (great teacher or charismatic cult leader? I'm not sure!), but whose teachings I often find useful nonetheless... here is a further elaboration:

The sense of trust is that, when you apply your inquisitiveness, when you look into a situation, you know that you will get a definite response.

If you take steps to accomplish something, that action will have a result--either failure or success. When you shoot your arrow, either it will hit the target or it will miss. Trust is knowing that there will be a message.

When you trust in those messages, the reflections of the phenomenal world, the world begins to seem like a bank, or reservoir, of richness. You feel that you are living in a rich world, one that never runs out of messages....

You trust, not in success, but in reality.... [W]hatever the result that comes from your action, that result is not an end in itself. You can always go beyond the result; it is the seed for a further journey.

And,

Often, when someone tells us we should be fearless, we think they're saying not to worry, that everything is going to be all right. But unconditional fearlessness is simply based on being awake....

[F]earlessness is unconditional because you are neither on the side of success or failure. Success and failure are your journey.