Sanka: Saigyo's Mountain Home - Articles - House of #Hermits - #Hermitary

https://www.hermitary.com/articles/saigyo.html

Hojoki: Kamo no Chomei's Account of His Hut - Articles - House of #Hermits - #Hermitary

https://www.hermitary.com/articles/hojoki.html

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Shonin Risa Bear

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I'd like to plug someone who actually knows things about #hermits (I don't really). The blog is quite good.

https://www.hermitary.com/

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Photo essay from which these toots were drawn. 12/12

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"When alone, I have often felt as Thoreau or Emerson did -- that what was to be noticed was that the dandelion or mullein is not separate but a localized manifestation of the undifferentiated; the inspection of one's surroundings yields not things but a happening. "
11/x

https://risashome.blogspot.com/2022/03/tea-and-sparrows.html

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"Hermiting and meditation have a lot in common, and of course hermits are often meditators. They make a kind of wisdom progress, though that's putting it badly. Wisdom does not build or progress, it's simply revealed by the studied and applied omission of distractions. One peels away the unnecessary, and that which was wise but poorly understood remains." 10/x

https://risashome.blogspot.com/2022/03/into-gold.html

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"Thinking of it this way, a respirator is a hermitage of sorts." 9/x

https://risashome.blogspot.com/2022/03/about-that-pandemic.html

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I'm a summer baby; I love to fill my eyes with ripening crops. But the hut loves winter. 8/x

https://risashome.blogspot.com/2022/03/greet-them.html

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The routine is to put some water in the reservoir of the rice steamer, water and grain and veggie powder and salt in the bowl in the steamer basket, and set the timer. One then does morning service (sometimes this is in the afternoon) and a meal is ready by the time this is over.

https://risashome.blogspot.com/2022/03/mountain-kitchen.html

7/x
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I know of the lives and thoughts of poet-hermits and Zen master-hermits, because their findings were written down and then, centuries later, translated, and I'm grateful. It does help to follow lamplight when one enters, as it were at night, upon an unfamiliar pathway.

https://risashome.blogspot.com/2022/02/homework.html

6/x
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"I began to accumulate comforts and conveniences. Here's an inventory from 2017:"

https://risashome.blogspot.com/2022/02/investigate-this-fully.html

5/x
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Winters here can sometimes be downright exciting.

Our acre is not a prime one, consisting of rocks and heavy clay, sloping away from the sun, and graced with an ill-made house that would cost more to bring up to code than its sale value. Accordingly, we were able to afford it. 😁 4/x (of probably 12)

https://risashome.blogspot.com/2022/02/a-level-playing-field.html

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"I distributed my efforts over a period of weeks, much to the amusement of the neighborhood, but eventually the tree began to follow my plan. " 3/x

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https://risashome.blogspot.com/2022/02/safe-to-re-occupy.html

As we worked on the playhouse in 1994, near the fence, a neighbor strode purposefully over. I chirped, "Hi! The kids had a playhouse like this at our last place, so we're building a replacement."

"Oh, okay." He pushed his ball cap, with its tractor-supply embroidery, back from his forehead. "I was gonna tell ya th' county don't allow building within ten feet of the th' line." 2/x

https://risashome.blogspot.com/2022/02/making-inhabitable-space.html

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Over the last eight years, I've been experimenting with living part time in an 8X10' hut. I want to toodle about this for a few toots, because I think there is some resilience/knowledge value in what went on there. Also hoping to populate certain hashtags a bit. Mute me if I'm hogging space. 1/x

https://risashome.blogspot.com/2022/02/about-that-hut.html

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