Ted Kooser - June 17, Iyengar II & I

From The Wheeling Year, a selection of observations and other snippets, arranged to match the calendar. All are excerpts from the workbooks he’s kept for sixty years; delightful, insightful. I loved this about the jigsaw puzzles, something I started during Covid. Kind of reminds of tackling an unfamiliar of challenging Yoga pose - from the corners. From the familiar to the unfamiliar, kind of sums Yoga practice for me.

June

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In a stack by the back door of the locked-up Goodwill store, a dozen jigsaw puzzles wait to be carried in, each box with a landscape on its lid, the top one with a snowy peak reflected in a lake, each one assembled once and then left among the bags of shoes and shirts, the heavy chair with cofFee-stained upholstery where someone sat to piece something together, starting in from the corners, one piece at a time.

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