Beautiful Gardens Have No Chores

There are no chores in a garden.  If you think a garden must be worked at, that is your privilege.
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 “It may be that when we no longer know which way to go that we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.”  Wendell Berry   


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“The teachers are everywhere. What is wanted is a learner.”
— Wendell Berry

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I travel farthest in my garden.  Beauty & epiphanies a chief delight, or perhaps the intellectual challenges.  There is nothing like using full brain power, and still, a chicken, outwits supposed IQ.  If your garden doesn't make you laugh, well, I can't imagine that type of garden.



Pic, above, here.
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"Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup." Wendell Berry
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April garden chores?  Chores?  Really?



Pic, above, here.
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"Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do". Wendell Berry
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What a day, below, Nancy Lancaster is having.  Arrayed in play clothes with Providence.  She's got her favorite wheelbarrow, beloved dogs, best clippers, plenty to occupy hands & heart while the brain flies, often into magical realms.  Hours spent, below, time nor hunger relevant.  Garden time.



Pic, above, here.
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"There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts." Wendell Berry
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In my garden there are no chores.
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Garden & Be Well,   XO T\,
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“As I have read the Gospels over the years, the belief has grown in me that Christ did not come to found an organized religion but came instead to found an unorganized one. He seems to have come to carry religion out of the temples into the fields and sheep pastures, onto the roadsides and the banks of the rivers, into the houses of sinners and publicans, into the town and the wilderness, toward the membership of all that is here. Well, you can read and see what you think.”  Wendell Berry

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“Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.”  Wendell berry

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1995 I spent intentionally dervishly gardening.  4 friends with dire health, many prayers to pray.  At the start of 1996 all 4 already buried.  Praying for G*d's will, indeed, earned.
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“This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer."  Wendell Berry
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Ca. 1982 I witnessed a customer cuss/yell/pontificate at my manager, ending with, "I'm closing my account."  Dear Elizabeth Purcell, tiny, 90lbs at most, deeply elderly, wildly sharp, replied softly after a significant Southern matriarchal pause, adjusting her thick glasses, looked up, with every soul in the room frozen, "That is your privilege."  The young, sallow skinned, girl, turned in her painted on blue jeans, and left, without a sound.  Vanquished.