There is no better example of community than Dharma's Garden. This morning, the Little Garden Stand was as vibrant and busy as ever. The flowers—gladiolas as the centerpiece of bouquets—were outrageously stunning. I mean, take your breath away stunning. The Little Garden Stand had a constant flow of visitors. Jess was cooking herb risotto. Everyone was enjoying steaming plates of fresh risotto and herbal iced tea made with fresh-picked mint, nettle, and lemon verbena. Jess had brought baskets of warm homemade strawberry and blueberry muffins which the little ones gobbled up between visits to the ducks. But it wasn’t so much the what, as it was the feeling of the morning. Sitting around, c
All this is full. All that is full. From fullness, fullness comes out. Taking fullness from fullness, What remains is fullness -Upanishads This morning I was swept up in the pure joy of the garden stand, the beauty, the sweetness, the laughter and community. Everyone greeting one another with smiles, oohing and ahhing over the new layout of the garden stand, and reveling in the spread. The children munched on carrots, as they dipped them in big tubs of washing water and delighted in chasing one another through the grass. It felt so abundant, in terms of joy, in terms of living, in terms of being so completely present and full. And the garden stand reflected that, overflowing with beautiful b
