![]() Milne’s Winnie the Pooh and The House at Pooh Corner to explain the basics of the philosophy of Taoism. In it, the author, Benjamin Hoff, uses stories from A.A. ![]() The Venerable tree PrunerĪs I bounced around between college and graduate school in the 1980s, waiting tables and tending bar, a new friend shared a book she was reading, The Tao of Pooh. In the worst weather, working boats leave the harbor, plodding wave-over-wave to the fishing grounds and return much as they left, leaving us wondering whether the trek was worth the effort.Īfter taking a daily walk during my stay, I also concluded that many of Deale’s inhabitants are “weekenders.” I’m thinking they come for the peace, quiet and tranquility of this small, humble place, which is a great segue into the subject of this post, “Life Lessons on Happiness & Productivity from an Unlikely Source.” 1. With its ready access to the Bay, Deale is also well known as a fishing town for both commercial and recreational anglers. Here one sees the Bay as the vestibule to the Port of Baltimore for large container ships, many of them carrying foreign automobiles (soon to have the daylights “tariffed” out of them). I harken back to my youth and days spent swimming and fishing with my cousins on the Susquehanna Flats, where the Susquehanna River meets the Bay in Harford County, Maryland, where I grew up.īut on this brief respite away, I was much further downstream in the small town of Deale, Maryland, twenty miles south of Annapolis. If you live in its watershed and you do environmental work as I do, you have some image of it in the back of your mind always as a source of meaning for your work. With a friend, I rented a small, but comfortable cottage on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay with a beautiful view of that estuary. 77-78).Ī couple of weeks ago, I took the vacation I’ve needed to take for a while, hence my lapse in posting to this blog. It drives down the street in a fast-moving car and thinks it's at the store, going over a grocery list. It goes here and there, backwards and forwards, and fails to concentrate on what it's doing at the moment. Such a mind, even if of high intelligence, is inefficient. This mind tries too hard, wears itself out, and ends up weak and sloppy. ![]() Own through the centuries, man has developed a mind that separates him from the world of reality, the world of natural laws.
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