Day 15: Unsolicited Beauty, Chesed in Tiferet
Today is the 15th Day of the Omer (May 4-5, 2008). May that part of me that is broken in Chesed in Tiferet be healed on this day.
Greene Street Garden
PamOur next door neighbor Pam is an awesome gardener. She's also head landscaper for Citizen's Bank Park (not the groundskeeper who works on the turf -- she makes the park itself beautiful with flowers, shrubs and trees).
I don't think she gardens for altruistic reasons, but her work improves the spirits of the neighborhood.
We often think of destructive internal desires that lead people towards various transgressions. But what about the driving internal forces that lead people toward making life better? I think that Pam's gardening is likely an example of that.
I hope also that this omer journal is an example of that.
On this day of Chesed in Tiferet I hope to unloosen my desires that make the world a better place.
Comments
2 comments postedI often think of my blog-tending as something akin to gardening. Greatly helping the analogy along is the never-ending battle with spam comments, rank and prolific as weeds.
The trick is spending more time outside than writing about being outside while being cooped up on a computer indoors! Seems like doing you manage that balance pretty well.
These silly math "captchas" are stopping roughly 499 of every 500 attempts! I'm quite pleased. And so much easier than those graphic captchas. And stopping spam leaves no toxic residue! I think this analogy can go a long way.