Monday, January 23, 2017

It's What We Do With What We Have

Across the years, somehow, this garden, below, reaches deep within, and holds me dearly.
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The fence is so much more than its parts.
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You seeing Pablo Picasso & Georges Braque, or my favorite Kurt Schwitters too?    
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Perhaps you see a fence made from junk, the best a poor person could do?
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Not me.  I see the best within the human spirit.  Means may be meager, yet the end soars.  In the making those means are made golden.
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Perhaps that is why this garden wraps its arms around me.  Connection with a kindred spirit.
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And thus we've arrived where E.M.Forster wrote, myriad volumes, upon a pair of words, "Only connect."
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Pic, above, here.  1-west-virginia-1938-mpwolcott-library-of-congress 
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Dignity & truth abide, above.  Of course Forster, in, A Room With A View, "It is so difficult – at least, I find it difficult – to understand people who speak the truth.  ", writes of humanity, not merely those he prefers.
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Garden & Be Well,   XOT
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Today's Garden Design assignment: Design your garden with the core of your dignity & truth, conveying who you are.   Shoot a pic of this newly designed garden, next, push the pic a century forward, you are long buried, will viewers know who you were, from that lone pic of your garden?
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Seems a bit extreme, yes?  Why should Picasso, Schwitters or Forster have all the fun, with their art?  It's all there, for you, too.  Only connect, within.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

The builder of this fence didn't know it at the time, but it's stunning! Thank you for sharing it with us!