“Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.” ~ Alfred Austin
“A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.”
~ Gertrude Jekyll
After a long, cold Winter it seems like Spring has finally sprung! I’m super excited to celebrate the change of seasons by taking my first steps toward opening the garden. The first rite of Spring in my garden is to go around and stand up everything Old Man Winter knocked down over the past five months.
I begin by climbing up on a chair and lashing together the tree branches which form the tipsy trellis-arch over the garden path. It’s the showpiece of the garden once it’s returned to its upright position, the portal through which guests enter, and the framework for taming my wild, climbing roses into an artful expression of pseudo-civilized domestic bliss. What’s left of the roses, I should say, after the bunnies have been munching on them all winter long. Read more »
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“The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.”
~ Bertrand Russell
“An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.”
~ Bonnie Friedman
It’s kind of ironic that I spent Easter day at home by myself writing in my journal about how blessed I feel. Earlier in my life, I might have viewed this exact same scenario as indicative of being somewhat of a loser. Aren’t we all supposed to celebrate special holidays with family, friends, feasts and festivities? I usually feel especially compelled to honor such a holy holiday in some personally profound way. Read more »
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“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.”
~ John Milton
“The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground.”
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
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“What if there is an afterlife? What if, before you get to Heaven, you go to a special place — A place where you choose one memory to take with you forever? What is the one memory you would choose?” That’s an excerpt from the newest addition to my inspirational Magic Movie Clips Gallery, After Life (Hirokazu Koreeda, 1998). Check it out: Read more »
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