{"id":2331,"date":"2025-06-18T19:37:50","date_gmt":"2025-06-19T00:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/?p=2331"},"modified":"2025-06-18T19:37:50","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T00:37:50","slug":"weeknote-for-4-27-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thinkulum.net\/blog\/2025\/06\/18\/weeknote-for-4-27-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Weeknote for 4\/27\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spirituality<\/h2>\n

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A period of accumulating insights continued.<\/strong> These mainly crystallize during my morning devotions. The most significant was that life is a mix of experience that has waves and seasons\u2014pain and joy, work and rest. Rather than hindering myself by rejecting the parts I don\u2019t like, I need to expect and accept these cycles and to lean into them, learning to practice both the work and the rest, to benefit from both joy and pain. I can’t say I actually did any of that, but my spiritual agenda was being shaped.<\/p>\n

Nature<\/h2>\n

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White and pink trees have made up my spring.<\/strong> Each year I notice something different about the seasons, and this year spring has been about the white trees lining the roads with many pink ones interspersed. I’ve also noticed all the empty dandelion stalks, which are less nice and remind me of scraggly whiskers. But I did see some geese eating the fluffy seedheads one day, so now I know dandelions serve a purpose (and I’m told people eat the greens).<\/p>\n

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