The Tropical Homestead

Exploring abundance in paradise

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Anonymous asked: Liss! Are you back?? We missed you!

Y'all are too sweet! I didn’t think any one would notice I was gone.  

I’m not back yet, still have a lot to do. Just popped in to get some info from my messenger and couldn’t help but post some glad tidings, etc. 

Happy New Year to you and may your 2019 be filled with good things.

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Do not go upon what has been acquired by repeated hearing;
nor upon tradition; nor upon rumor;
nor upon what is in a scripture: nor upon surmise;
nor upon an axiom; nor upon specious reasoning;
nor upon a bias towards a notion that has been pondered over:
nor upon another’s seeming ability; nor upon the consideration,
“The monk is our teacher.”
When you yourselves know:
These things are good; these things are not blamable;
these things are praised by the wise; undertaken and observed,
these things lead to benefit and happiness, enter on
and abide in them.

Gautama Buddha


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ymutate:

Being A Person


Be a person here. Stand by the river, invoke
the owls. Invoke winter, then spring.
Let any season that wants to come here make its own
call. After that sound goes away, wait.

A slow bubble rises through the earth
and begins to include sky, stars, all space,
even the outracing, expanding thought.
Come back and hear the little sound again.

Suddenly this dream you are having matches
everyone’s dream, and the result is the world.
If a different call came there wouldn’t be any
world, or you, or the river, or the owls calling.

How you stand here is important. How you
listen for the next things to happen. How you breathe.


-William Stafford

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