I’m trying to simplify … but
Since Tin started at Waldorf, I’ve been reading more and more about anthroposophy and Rudolf Steiner. Steiner was all over the map – writing about the need for a nourished earth to provide us with nourishing food – biodynamics; the need to move our bodies – eurythmy; the spirit body or etheric body and on and on.
I’ve met Waldorf and Steiner at a most opportune time in my life – I need to simplify. And so I’m immersing myself deeper in zen, in Steiner, and in Waldorf and learning how rhythm and routine are essential to the healthy mind, body and soul.
So last night, when I had planned a playdate for Tin with friends who have been asking about him, I thought, this will be a nice way to end the week, and then … well and then as it always happens around the LaLa, the windows out to the bayou have a tendency to invite those wandering souls in.
So it was that others came, one bringing papaya tree saplings to plant in the side yard – the victim of termites that ate the Queen palm [btw: now no longer a victim, but a lush forest of angel’s trumpets, ginger, yesterday today & tomorrow, along with bright pink hydrangeas]. Someone came in with melon and prosciutto, and then blueberries with blue cheese on crackers another had, then there was pizza ordered, and salad made with pumpkin seed oil and pumpkin seeds, and there were toys and people and music and conversation and the LaLa became the place where it was all going down.
And it did. At the end of the night, when I was cleaning the table and Tatjana was picking up pieces of cracker from the floor, she said, “Yeah right, a simple playdate, harumph.”
You say harumph and I say Ta Da!
Depends on how you look at it.
June 23rd, 2012 at 7:57 pm
Sounds like much more fun and enjoyment to plant in that nourished earth, eat that nourishing food, move your bodies to music and liveliness, all in the company of good friends – than to study from a book or contemplate. I think you hit the philosophy right on the nail head, even if it wasn’t in the manner you’d planned. 🙂 (it must have been the right phase of the moon to plant those saplings). Sounds like a wonderful day.
June 24th, 2012 at 8:49 am
M – indeed. Accepting what is, is a big part of my journey these days, because before it was about measuring up to the ideal, now it’s about the perfect reality of the moment. There is even a part of me that kicks myself for not knowing then what I know now, and even that is a harpy that needs to be slated. I know it now, move on. I have the privilege of having many moments as those described in this post – living in New Orleans, a city that feeds communion, against the backdrop of the bayou. Doesn’t get much better than this. R