Corner View: Out of the Car Window

23 September 2009 Filed In: corner view



As a New Yorker, working from home, living in a great neighborhood, and using the subway with abandon, I am hardly ever in a car. So, now I will have to cheat a little bit (you won’t mind, will you?) and show you what we all saw one day last month when we were in an (gasp) actual car driving through Vermont.

“Pull over! Pull over!” I called out to my husband.
Thousands of flowering lotuses. How exquisite to see the bright, flowering beauty lavishing itself upon us. A surprise. As a yogini and a chef, I always, think, too, of what lies beneath. Each and every one of those beauties started down below the water, in the muck. Up they came through it all to show their faces in the light. Sigh. A lotus sutra in rural Vermont.
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