Errands in the morning, landscape help at Riverknoll in the afternoon (followed by dinner). Fine summer day, though hot working in the sun.

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A key term is practice: meaning a deliberate sustained and conscious effort to be more finely tuned to ourselves and to the way the actual existing world is. “The world,” with the exception of a tiny bit of human intervention, is ultimately a wild place. It is that side of our being which guides our breath and our digestion, and when observed and appreciated is a source of deep intelligence.
—Gary Snyder, The Practice of the Wild