Kim
Tea Space is the perfect host / as the sky hosts clouds / and Great
Mind hosts all thoughts
Siddiq
The imperfection / how shall I learn to treasure / just the way it is?
Ulrich
No student far or near – you are the task
Tracy
Aging into tea / No more kneeling, I soften / my mind is water.
Lesley
folding fukusa…unfolding cherry blossoms…unfolding asha
Deb
Good to go into the calm together
Kate
Long ago, here now, too / I have shared this tea with you / More
precious, these memories.
Sakina
bubbles silently bursting in the green foam— when will my desire
to be perfect burst?
Lesley
our cosy tea together…cherry blossoms meet a field of
sunflowers…where else can we do this?
Kim
Stillness amidst the turbulence / the whisk outlines a perfect ensoe /
and continues
Kay & Anne
I bow in great thanks. The gift of your company, brings joy to
the day.
Sita
Making sense or no sense / life swings between sunflowers and
blossoms while we drink a bowl /
of tea / making no sense at all / just Now.
Siddiq
there are no mistakes / shall my failures be virtues? / friend, you
miss the point.
Jean
It is all yellow again, as I knew it would be. The chamisa crowns, the abundant sunflowers, the fields, the light on everything. This season, more
than any other, reminds us that time is fleeting, and now is the time to lay down the seeds for new life, which is not so distant after all.