{"id":8513,"date":"2014-02-23T16:24:38","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T00:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/?p=8513"},"modified":"2014-02-23T17:53:42","modified_gmt":"2014-02-24T01:53:42","slug":"watering-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/2014\/02\/23\/watering-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Watering the Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From a painting not done on this trip, but it fits here. Click it for larger view.<\/h6>\n

Here in Oregon we’ve had a fairly simple routine. We rise in the still-gray mornings for time with our own minds. Then Anne is upstairs for art, me down, at computer, joining her afternoons. At some point each day we go off for a walk. Often a light rain is falling, but we only use the umbrella sparingly, not wanting to look too much like foreigners.<\/p>\n

We find ourselves enjoying the watering of our minds as much as we enjoy the drizzle outside. This year as last, we’ve listened to a 36-lecture overview of The Italian Renaissance<\/em>\u00a0as background while doing art. In the evenings it’s Downton Abbey<\/em>\u00a0for entertainment (last year, it was\u00a0Foyles War<\/em> for\u00a0the second time).<\/p>\n

We have our books. At page 120, I’m a tenth of the way into The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich<\/em>. Instructive, really, of how things can go, and did.<\/p>\n

Anne finished A Million Miles in a Thousand Years<\/em> by Donald Miller, an enjoyable book she also read from to me in the car. She’s now into Caleb’s Crossing<\/em>, a novel.<\/p>\n

I’m also dipping out of What if Jesus Had Never Been Born?<\/em> with so much of how and why this culture developed so different than others.<\/p>\n

Morning and Evening<\/em>\u00a0is a book of Charles Spurgeon meditations I found on my mother’s bookshelf. I’m reading it for her sake, and mine.<\/p>\n

There’s also a pithy little book found on a give-away shelf called New Creation Realities,<\/em>\u00a0a pulsating massage shower of reminders of who we are, or can be.<\/p>\n

Then there’s the Bible itself, the Gospel of Mark, Psalms, or wherever; Anne is reading through the New Testament.<\/p>\n

If our friend Adolf Hitler, who was a great reader in his earlier days, had meditated more along these lines it would have saved the world a good deal of trouble.<\/p>\n

But most of our time has been spent at our crafts. Anne has been highly productive, doing finish work on scores of pieces started earlier. The walls here are fairly covered with her exquisite works.<\/p>\n

I’ve been able to keep to a routine of a chapter drafted in the morning and a painting painted in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

As a bonus, yesterday we approached a very fine gallery near here and they accepted ten pieces from each of us.*<\/p>\n

Just a few more days and we’ll be on the road again, back to the land of sun, and the abundance of all things.<\/p>\n

Either way, we’re grateful.<\/p>\n

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\n*More about that in the next “e-gallery.”<\/p>\n

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As a man readeth, so you might say, he thinketh, and as he thinketh . . . you know the rest. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8513"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8529,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8513\/revisions\/8529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}