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and everything is invisibly basted.   it will rest for a day.  

 

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in the little "bowls" where the green beans are planted…   the spores must have been waiting in the scrap feed , the compost. ?  waiting silently.  i wonder what they look like?  how small a spore is?

in each bowl this morning there they were…not there last eve.  and shriveled to almost nothing at all when i got back from work today.   i had to look hard to find them.   Mushrooms.   how amazing, in a desert.   i wonder what purpose they serve.  Everything has one.  What might be Theirs?

 

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  1. jude Avatar
    jude

    i am trying to resolve my idea about purpose. i can’t get it. intent i get. purpose, i can’t get it. unless it might be more of “useful”. and even that is so context sensitive.

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  2. patricia Avatar
    patricia

    hmmmmm. mushrooms. lots of purposes.

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  3. Dana Avatar
    Dana

    Sometimes purpose is beyond our sight, which reinforces the importance of just being. That said, here in the Northwest we’re told that the fungus (of which mushrooms are the fruiting bodies) act symbiotically with the other plants, especially trees, to extend their root systems and make more nutrients available to all. That is a lovely metaphor isn’t it? I love the little blue patch on you sunflower petal. My eye goes right there.

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  4. grace Avatar
    grace

    i just had a long long long phone conversation with my
    granddaughter who is 24 years old and more than i could
    ever have hoped she might be as a human being.
    we talked about specifics but we also ended up with the
    reality that we are part of an ongoing Evolution. Human
    Beings are not at all “finished”…we are really, new.
    but we are also dumb.
    Purpose.
    What is purpose. ? to do no harm. first.
    That is critical. to do no harm.
    and part of doing no harm is to be sensitive to the reality that we live in community. the mushroom rose up this morning right next to the bean sprout. co exist.
    take what you need to LIVE, not more. the mushroom lived, ROSE UP, spewed it’s spores, shriveled.
    Purpose.
    what can we GIVE?
    with who we Are. what can we GIVE to humanity?
    maybe the question can go from the other side? What do
    we TAKE. What do we feel entitled to TAKE?
    But, no. back to Give. What can we Give? day to day.
    What we can give, day to day, is expressing our understanding of how it is to live in this world. to express this so thoughtfully, so sincerely, so diligently. To say how it is for us, what we see, what we feel. what we learn from seeing/feeling. to tell the story of that seeing and feeling and to tell it as the most important thing we do. this is how i live. today.
    April 21, 2014. This. This is my Life. let everyone else, anyone else look and see if it makes sense to them.
    I DON’T KNOW. my purpose. what is my purpose. it seems so simple to me. and yet..here i am, mired in confusion with a neighbor about imagined goat smell. how do i find
    a sense of purpose in that???????????????????
    but, somehow, there is. how i respond to her. Who I AM
    in it all.
    that’s my purpose, i guess.
    I DON’T KNOW. but i watch you live your life. i watch and listen to you. and i find similarity there. i find
    energy there…
    To Search
    unending for Purpose. maybe that’s all it is. Maybe that’s enough. To Try.
    Because NO ONE has that ANSWER

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  5. grace Avatar
    grace

    “beyond our sight”
    our sight cannot See purpose.
    Purpose maybe can only be seen backward.
    “fungus (of which mushrooms are the fruiting bodies)”
    i love those words. just really love those words. so
    maybe
    part of my Purpose is to really, like, REALLY, love
    knowing that. “fungus (of which mushrooms are the fruiting bodies)”
    maybe that enters in to the substance of my Purpose. to
    read that, to be FILLED by that. Purpose.
    that little blue patch…i thought ….WHAT???? how can it GO here??????????????? but it wanted to. and i let it.
    said OK. and it’s Nice, isn’t it. yes it is. Who knows Why.

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  6. grace Avatar
    grace

    maybe it’s just to Care.

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  7. grace Avatar
    grace

    i don’t know.
    i love mushrooms. in food.
    but these…Are they Food?, i have no idea. probably not.
    and so
    WHY?

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  8. yvette Avatar
    yvette

    has there be purpose?

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  9. jude Avatar
    jude

    harm is even hard to define. still i find context so much the ruler, the measurement device. point of view. and this thing, point of view is all i can think about.

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  10. Cynthia Avatar
    Cynthia

    ok i promise to try to not do one more mary oliver quote for ages but all i could think of seeing these images, reading everyone’s words
    ” whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
    the world offers itself to your imagination,
    to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting–
    over and over announcing your place
    in the family of things”
    purpose and mushrooms and beyond our sight..it is something to hold onto this morning

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  11. jude Avatar
    jude

    questions.

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  12. Cynthia Avatar
    Cynthia

    so many

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  13. Marti Avatar
    Marti

    Today is Earth Day and I have one simple question: Isn’t every day Earth Day?
    Besides the first imperative of do no harm, what is my purpose? I have no big sweeping philosophical answers because who can answer this question.All I know is that every day, in mostly small ways, I bear witness to what comes, whether positive or negative. In doing so, I try to interact and impact with the least amount of angst on those tough days. Always I go to the land and you would think that I live on many, many acres…
    Well no, just this little spot here in New Mexico, in a subdivision of homes on a ridge but I do have a little backyard and it is filled with xeriscaped grounds as in lots of gravel but also in our backyard, lilac bushes, non bearing pear trees, and many, many seeds that we have planted this weekend and yesterday. It is also filled with the good goat compost that we get whenever we go to grace.
    So maybe for me, purpose is a promise that I make to the land, to treat it with respect, to use it to provide nourishment at every level for the two of us, my husband and I,family, friends, neighbors and to never take for granted the gifts that are present each and every day. To make a promise to Gaia that I will be ever mindful of what I take from the land, and what I hopefully give back by care-taking of this space and that I will be mindful of how to live here in this place called Earth, our home.

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  14. Mo Crow Avatar
    Mo Crow

    have a look at mycorrhizal association
    & re purpose, as Shakespeare said so long ago
    “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

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  15. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i think that the word
    purpose
    is one that has a zillion meanings to a zillion individuals.
    and is one of those words that may require In Person
    conversation. this means of communication, blog, blog
    comment is inadequate.
    one of the things i’ve learned as i have posted here, is
    to not bring something up unless i’m prepared to Continue
    with it until i feel like i have made some kind of sense
    about how i experience something/anything.
    i was really, just thinking about the purpose of mushrooms, fungi. because, they DO have purpose…
    as the comments have given reference.
    Human purpose, well…that’s too much for here…

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  16. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Just want to thank you again for this comment. it IS
    a lovely metaphor
    as well as helping me remember what i’d forgotten

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  17. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    are you thinking does there have to be a purpose?
    i think there just Is. we all participate in some way?
    we all are a Part, in some way?
    is that Purpose? i think….

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  18. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Cynthia, you could put Mary O’s words here many times a
    day and i would drink them in with deep thirst.
    yes…the Wild Geese,
    Place
    in the family of things

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  19. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    Marti…it IS Earth Day. and i am stunned that in the NEWS
    section of Google Chrome there was absolutely NO MENTION
    of the Earth. NONE. ZERO.
    i think it is a silent statement. i don’t have TV so i
    don’t know what was mentioned there. Did our President
    say a few words for the Earth? Maybe not. he is avoiding Keystone like the plague.
    If i wanted to, i could get all worked up about this. But
    i don’t. and maybe that’s a sad sign, that i don’t. i feel like it’s useless.
    There are times when i wish i could Pray. Pray with a
    sense that those prayers had a Destination…could travel
    to somewhere where SomeThing would HEAR them….. and
    understand what i was trying to Say.
    but, alas….i don’t have that. and so. on this Earth
    Day, well
    i guess i am just Sad.

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  20. grace Forrest Avatar
    grace Forrest

    i had a look. and yes. here it is again, as Dana said.
    it’s all so brilliantly woven for the Well Being of the Whole. so stunningly intricately purposefull. stunningly intricately Successfull at moving LIFE forward on the
    Good Road.

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