Sunday, July 13, 2025

Take a Sensory Walk* Healing Defined* Garden Report*



Take a Sensory Walk*

An old ToDo Institute advises taking a sensory walk:

TAKE A SENSORY WALK

Take a sensory walk every day this week, at the same time of day, if possible. Rather than ruminating or planning or thinking while you walk, use your senses. Listen for the sounds around you, including the sound of your own footsteps. Feel the air on your skin or the bark of a tree. Smell leaves, blossoms, and anything else you’re curious about. Look for visual details you never noticed before. 

Healing Defined*

IN JKZ #24, at about 20:30, JKZ defines healing like this:

...So this quiet sitting here might seem like nothing, but it just might turn out to be everything.  It looks like nothing from the outside, but this non-doing is not nothing, it's not doing nothing.  It's wakefulness itself, emerging in the form of you, us, and a potential source of never-ending learning, and out of that learning, really stretching our own envelopes and growing, even in the face of the full catastrophe of living, especially in the face of the full catastrophe of living, and out of that growing, healing, which in my working definition is really coming to terms with the full actuality of things and out of this healing, transformation simply emerges.

This reminds me a lot of Carl Rogers idea of personal growth (first healing, then growth).  For him, that growth happens naturally in the therapeutic setting, where the client is surrounded by unconditional positive regard.  

Garden Report*


Picked my first eggplant today and gave it to Anita.  Picked a handful of green beans, and ate immediately.  Their flavor is better before they begin swelling seeds, even a little bit.  I'm making my second batch of walnut pesto.  So, that's a 3-week gap after I chopped the basil last.  Just a couple days ago it began forming buds.  The hanging baskets and geraniums in big pots are thriving.  I've been picking a small handful of tomatoes from the tomato that I grew from Aerogarden.  There are bigger fruits on several other patio tomato varieties... this year I have no tomatoes in the garden -- just in cloth bags.  The tomatillo plant has become enormous.  The raspberries are slowing down -- After a couple weeks of picking a few per day, I haven't picked any new ones.  I did pick a number of small jalepenos from the faded orange pot below.  This plant began very scraggly... by some neglect -- either not enough or too much water as a sapling.  So, it's tenacious!  

A chunk of my container garden.  There's another section on the patio.

tomatillo container.  


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