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Out to the bees in just a few minutes to slap on two more honey supers each, the six I finished varnishing yesterday while Mark put foundations in the frames.\u00a0 This will find six honey supers on colonies 2 & 3, while colony 1, the parent colony for next year’s only divide, will have four.\u00a0 Not sure if I’ll need more than these.\u00a0 I’m having to do this in the early morning, not the best time, but the only time I’ve got today.<\/p>\n
At 9:15 Kate and I take off in separate cars for the Northern Clay Center.\u00a0 Our clay intensive starts this week, 10:00 to 4:30.\u00a0 I hope to learn how to make Japanese style tea cups and salad sized plates.\u00a0 Like tai chi working clay puts a premium on hand-eye co-ordination and sense of touch as well overall design skills.<\/p>\n
A good while ago my spiritual journey had gone stale in the reading, meditation, contemplative modes I knew best. The next stage of my spiritual practice became gardening, working with the rhythm of flowers, soil, spades and trowels.<\/p>\n
That practice went on for many years when Kate and I decided to add vegetables and the orchard with permaculture principles in mind.\u00a0 That added a good deal of oomph to the tactile spirituality, deciding to keep bees put animal husbandry into the mix.\u00a0 At this point my spirituality has become more and more attuned to the rhythms of growing seasons, plants and bees, all within the context of the Celtic Great Wheel.<\/p>\n
With tai chi and clay my spiritual practice comes closer in again, my hands, my feet, my hips, my arms.\u00a0 Both clay and tai chi are paths on this nature focused ancientrail, though for me they are quite a bit harder.\u00a0 But that’s the push I need to grow.<\/p>\n
After our first day at Northern Clay, I have my Woolly meeting tonight at Highpoint Print co-operative where we will make prints.\u00a0 One more step down the ancientrail of the mind\/body link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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