The little gourds that decorated my front step have frozen, and somebody is eating them. Or trying to eat them. I find them scattered five feet away from the places i put them, so i suppose a squirrel is trying to carry them off. But are they worth it? Is there any nourishment in a gourd? From the amount of crumbs lying around, it looks like they're not interested in the meat of the gourd.
What do we chew on that provides us no nourishment? Old wrongs? Old grudges? Resentments?
As Pema Chodron says, "Anger is like eating rat poison and waiting for the rat to die."
Grudges and resentments are useless. Really useless. All that (mental) energy to what end?
Take a lesson from the squirrels and forget those grudges. Forget those gourds.
I'm throwing the chewed up gourds into the compost.
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