54\u00a0 bar steady 29.78\u00a0 1mph NW\u00a0 dew-point 44\u00a0 Beltane, sunny and cool<\/p>\n
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The weather remains cool.\u00a0 This is not a long spring; it’s a long late March or early April.\u00a0 The gardening upside has been longer lasting blooms on the tulips and the daffodils and the scylla.\u00a0 This weather has also proved excellent for transplanting, reducing transplant shock to a minimum and resulting in little wilting after a move.\u00a0 The downside has been slow germination (no germination?) for some vegetable seeds planted and slow growth for the ones that have sprouted.\u00a0 From the humans who live here in Andover perspective it’s been a great season.\u00a0 Cool weather to work outside and to further many landscaping projects.<\/p>\n
Last night’s conversation about mastery at Tom’s lingers today.\u00a0 At one point we asked each person to claim what mastery they found in themselves, then we offered evidence of mastery we found in them, too, from an outsider’s perspective.\u00a0 Various Woolly’s were masters of soulfullness, love, living, listening, communicating, design, the big picture, and drawing others out to see the best in themselves.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tom and I were wrong in our assumption that individual Woollys would find it difficult to claim a sense of mastery.\u00a0 And delighted to be wrong, too.\u00a0 We affirmed what each Woolly saw as their area of mastery and added ones they hadn’t seen or chose to ignore, e.g. mastery of forensic engineering, computer skills and sheepshead, making the complex accessible, letting go, the body in motion.<\/p>\n
In my case, for example, I admitted I couldn’t find anything to claim since I’ve lead such a curiousity driven life, often running full speed down divergent paths at the same time.\u00a0 Then, I said, “Well, I guess I could claim being a master student.”\u00a0 That got modified in the eyes of the group to seeker after essential, radical truth.\u00a0 OK, I can see that.\u00a0 “You’re a master teacher, too.”\u00a0 Hadn’t occurred to me, but that’s become a theme in various areas of my life of late, so it must be there in spite of my opacity to it.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tom initiated a get together for designing the evening and having me as a co-facilitator, rather than a servant lackey.\u00a0 He made the food simple, sandwiches and soup followed by a big, really big, cookie.\u00a0 Others seemed to appreciate the act of co-operation in design of the evening.\u00a0 Tom and I wanted to introduce better time managment, and we did; but, that was not appreciate by everyone.\u00a0 “Felt forced.”\u00a0 Well, yes.\u00a0 But every time together has its limits and therefore its limits on contribution.<\/p>\n
As we closed, Tom observed that the Woolly’s as a group are a master that each of us can turn to for guidance in life.\u00a0 I nuanced that a bit by suggesting that as a group, over 20+ years together, we have mastered groupness.\u00a0 We are a living community, best evidenced, as someone said,\u00a0by the fact that we show up.<\/p>\n
I have signed out for the summer at the Art Institute.\u00a0 I need the break.\u00a0 I’ll use the time for writing, family and our land.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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