I like small resolutions, small in size but also ones I can work on every day. Waste Not. This is one which I formulated at Dhamma Atala (most beautiful meditation centre in the artistic centre of Italy, the rolling hills around Tuscany www.atala.dhamma.org). It is about not wasting any minute or moment of the day. So often I march down the road to work, unaware of the tender curls of mist over the trees near where I live, or (in early wintery mornings) the twinkling stars, or, indeed, the sensation of the buzz of cold on my skin, so engrossed as I am in the latest evaluation form I need to fill in for work. I guess it is also about not wasting water, paper, trees, food - Dhamma Atala is so short of water they have to drive in trucks to fill their tanks when a course is on so you really get to appreciate each drop, and understand the reason for the lavabos, unlike here in incredibly rainy Tod, where we long, sometimes, for dryness.
Patricia Wilden, photographer, has just asked me if she can use the vegetable haiku for a photography project - how exciting when art sparks art sparks art and, in this case, all thanks to incredible tod of course!
JUDY KENDALL award-winning poet, short fiction, visual text writer, collaborator and incredible edible Todmorden poet laureate - click below to see more of her work
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