VAL D'ORCIA TUSCANY
Tea ceremony appointment
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I invite you to slow down your pace by the company of a cup of tea.
Let the words vanish in the flow of the thoughtless mind, and reconnect the feet to the mother earth.
Let the breeze come to breath you,
to submerge in the brilliant greenness of Tuscan fields.
“History is still not Time; nor is evolution. They are both consequences. Time is a state: the flame in which there lives the salamander of the human soul.” – Andrey Tarkovsky, from Sculpting in Time
Bagno Vignoni
When I am Among the Trees
Mary Oliver
When I am among the trees, especially the willows and the honey locust, equally the beech, the oaks and the pines, they give off such hints of gladness. I would almost say that they save me, and daily. I am so distant from the hope of myself, in which I have goodness, and discernment, and never hurry through the world but walk slowly, and bow often. Around me the trees stir in their leaves and call out, “Stay awhile.” The light flows from their branches. And they call again, “It's simple,” they say, “and you too have come into the world to do this, to go easy, to be filled with light, and to shine.”
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Lucignano d'Asso
The eye of the stones
The stones whose coat of elemental brown, one next to the other,
Yet independent as the sun.
A passing universe put on,
Looking both inward and outward.
In its casual simplicity, fulfills the universal consciousness in every moment.
Horti Leonini
San Quirico d'Orcia
Every morning is a cheerful invitation to make the mind of equal simplicity as all the living beings in the nature.
