Collecting Tadpoles

Posted by Russ Devan (New Hanover, United States) on 7 July 2009 in Landscape & Rural and Portfolio.

I found out that one of the things my kids liked to do on our camping trip was to explore the islands in the middle of Seventh Lake by canoe. Here, my son and daughter discovered several hundred tadpoles in a shallow lagoon in the middle of one such island. The tadpoles were half the size of my fingernail and had all four legs but still had their tails. Appropriately, they named the island "Tadpole Island". We paddled the approximate half-mile to the island from our campsite several times during the week to check on the progress of the tadpoles and to explore other areas of the island.

"The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both."
- Zen Buddhist Text

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