{"id":115,"date":"2007-03-31T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2007-03-31T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-31T21:51:00","slug":"spring-cleaning-and-sand-mandalas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/31\/spring-cleaning-and-sand-mandalas\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring cleaning and sand mandalas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/Rg7YcwBZjeI\/AAAAAAAAAEs\/3ZiQGvSnXEo\/s1600-h\/2007-03-31pantry1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/Rg7YcwBZjeI\/AAAAAAAAAEs\/3ZiQGvSnXEo\/s400\/2007-03-31pantry1.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048210220767612386\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The Tibetan monks don&#8217;t have any monopoly on an understanding of time. I&#8217;ve watched with amazement when they spent days and days creating a sand mandala that was then poured into a nearby river. But anybody who engages in spring cleaning has a pretty good understanding of the transience of states of reality. I&#8217;ve spent the better part of 2 days cleaning out this pantry. It&#8217;s gorgeous now &#8230; and the fact that I say that gives you some inkling of the condition it was in when I began cleaning it. You just know it won&#8217;t look like that for more than 72 hours or so.<\/p>\n<p>In case you were thinking this was going to be yet another non-calligraphy post &#8230; I did get to do a little calligraphy in the midst of spring cleaning:<br \/><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/Rg7d3gBZjgI\/AAAAAAAAAE8\/nQpV2S_6dOc\/s1600-h\/2007-03-31pantry3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/Rg7d3gBZjgI\/AAAAAAAAAE8\/nQpV2S_6dOc\/s400\/2007-03-31pantry3.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048216177887251970\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/Rg7eAABZjhI\/AAAAAAAAAFE\/Fsn2v_iI4pY\/s1600-h\/2007-03-31pantry4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/Rg7eAABZjhI\/AAAAAAAAAFE\/Fsn2v_iI4pY\/s400\/2007-03-31pantry4.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048216323916140050\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/Rg7dogBZjfI\/AAAAAAAAAE0\/gVu9pCaviLM\/s1600-h\/2007-03-31pantry2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_p-m6o9O32-o\/Rg7dogBZjfI\/AAAAAAAAAE0\/gVu9pCaviLM\/s400\/2007-03-31pantry2.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5048215920189214194\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tibetan monks don&#8217;t have any monopoly on an understanding of time. I&#8217;ve watched with amazement when they spent days and days creating a sand mandala that was then poured into a nearby river. But anybody who engages in spring cleaning has a pretty good understanding of the transience of states of reality. I&#8217;ve spent &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/2007\/03\/31\/spring-cleaning-and-sand-mandalas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Spring cleaning and sand mandalas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-something-else"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bHT3-1R","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/callibeth.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}