Heart blessing

Journal entry: January 7, 2006

Life in a flurry passes along... lately it seems as if it is a void that follows a huge burst of light. The back end of a shockwave, as it were. I have experiences that shake my being and stand outside of anything the mind can touch. It is a language of the heart that is opening up in me... intermittently choking me to tears over the acts and sufferings of humanity. To explore what this language is to me, to my life, is my purpose and joy--cultivating the necessary manner of indifference is my challenge. Each experience each remembrance or echo of the experience--it shakes another brick loose in the tower of my religious tradition... of most every religious tradition. No institution or church adequately expresses what the heart knows--only an individual can do that.


Postscript:

Less than one week later, I helped a woman who was dear to me take her last breath.


Life and Love continued on.

Orchidae

Orchidae

Thriving outside in Encinitas
(a.k.a Paradise)

Sheltered in our kitchen through a Northern California winter

Cattleya aurantiaca

UCD Botanical garden,
Davis (2005)

Cymbidium

Quail Botanical Gardens,
Encinitas, CA (2002)
Med plant. Sturdy sprays of crimson red flowers, long lived flowers like to hang below pot level, blooms freely in winter (5cm)

Cymbidium

Quail Botanical gardens,
Encinitas, CA (2002)
Med plant green blossoms, like to hang below pot level, spikes are fragile and blooms relatively short lived (5cm)

Epidendrum


Joy Doherty, Leucadia, CA (2003)
Ever-blooming full size plant yellow flowers (2cm)





Epidendrum (no picture yet)
Joy Doherty, Leucadia, CA (2003)
Everblooming miniature plant magenta flowers

Liparis caespitosa

UCD Botanical garden,
Davis, CA (2005)
Stalks of microflowers (2mm)


Miltassia (Miltonia x Brassia)

San Diego Orchid Society Show (2002)
Charles M Fitch x Izumi
Mild floral fragrance, long lived blooms (10cm)

Miltassia (Miltonia x Brassia)

Trader Joes (2002)
Shelob Tolkien, Long-lived sprays of blooms

Oncidium

Nursery, Leucadia, CA (2003)
Similar to Shary Baby, many sprays of small crimson-magenta flowers strong chocolate scent (3.5cm)

Oncidium

Trader Joes (2003)
Sprays of white flowers with tiny yellow centers, strong vanilla orange fragrance (1cm)

Paphiopedilum

Trader Joes (2000)
Lost, but not forgotten.









Paphiopedilum
Trader Joes (2003)
Supersuk Eureka X Laser “red fire”
Long lived dramatic blooms

Phalaenopsis

Trader Joes (2006)
Taisuco Eros X Equestris alba









Pleurothallis restrepoides

UCD Botanical garden, Davis (2005)
“Dragonstone”
Still waiting for flowers... other interesting organs seem to have sprung up, though.

Zygopetalum

San Diego Orchid Society Show (2002)
Blue Banks cross.
Beautiful floral scent--my favorite orchid.
A fragrant beauty lost to disease; I hope to enjoy another someday.