As you may know, Geisha's spend years learning how to prepare and pour a cup of tea with complete grace. The tea ceremony becomes a meditation.
We who have been raised in the west may never have imagined how ordinary work can become a meditation. In 1978, I took this photograph of a woman sweeping steps near a sidewalk in Montreal. This photograph hangs in our home. Whether this woman imagines her sweeping as a meditation or not, her image has become a meditation for me - a reminder of how the heart may rest while the hands work.
