The saffron-leafed Sango Kaku
enrobed in November foliage
bestows autumnal Buddhist blessings
upon the land.
How precious its’ gift.
Are we humble enough to receive it?
Category: nature
Musings On The Moon
Several days ago, I, as you too might have, witnessed the “eclipse” of the sun. At that time, a portion of our earth was in the shadow of the moon. Of course, for us here in NY, it was only a partial eclipse of the sun. As the writer Annie Dillard so aptly put it in her classic essay Total Eclipse, “Seeing a partial eclipse bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him.” In other words, pleasant but not earth-shattering!