{"id":509,"date":"2007-03-31T15:38:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-31T15:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=509"},"modified":"2014-03-07T17:04:56","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T22:04:56","slug":"nine-banded-satori","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/?p=509","title":{"rendered":"Nine-banded satori"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know how it is when your whole life seems to have been the setup for a punchline, and then the Golden Moment arrives?<\/p>\n

At Kripalu<\/a> there’s this Labyrinth, a landscape construction involving spiraling pathways punctuated by items left by visitors, displaying intentions of various sorts (decipherable and otherwise), fairly obviously mystically inflected and semi-informed by various Traditions. Watches left as memento mori, keys as metaphors for… coins, rocks, pinecones… well, you get the idea:
\"IMG_2391\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Somebody has contributed a road-kill armadillo:
\"IMG_2389\"<\/a>
Now, this is western Massachusetts, and the nearest armadillo on the hoof is maybe Texas… so SOMEbody has to have brought<\/i> this road-kill armadillo from maybe Texas, in order to commit it to its place in the Labyrinth. Setting aside the questions of why and with what mystical intention, we can ask the practical question<\/p>\n

HOW was it brought?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And the answer leapt to my mind immediately:<\/p>\n

It was brought
as carry-on<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There. My life is now complete.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know how it is when your whole life seems to have been the setup for a punchline, and then the Golden Moment arrives? At Kripalu there’s this Labyrinth, a landscape construction involving spiraling pathways punctuated by items left by visitors, displaying intentions of various sorts (decipherable and otherwise), fairly obviously mystically inflected and semi-informed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rumination"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2729,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/509\/revisions\/2729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oook.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}