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Text July 13, 2021

Solstice, Juneteenth, a Butterfly Flies Up!

John Tarrant

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When the Rain Beats Down (MK28d), Zhuangzi Dreamed He Was a Butterfly
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2021, Daoism, dying, Father's Day, intimacy, June 2021, Laozi, molasses jacket, poet Czesław Miłosz, poet Juan Ramón Jimenez, poet Li Bai, solstice, Valley Spirit, writer Alberto Rios, Zhuangzi
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Even a time of torpor, or a time when plans come apart, or we thought the culture was going in one way and it’s going in another—we rely on the spaciousness, we rely on not what we’ve planned and schemed, but we rely on what’s been opened up in our hearts. Transcript from the PZI Zen Online recording from Sunday, June 21, 2020.

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