Small gesture, grand statement, below.
Pic, above, here.
.
Gardens, above, templated since BCE. Long before. Tapping into the templates quite a simple recipe. Exposed for years, here. Nothing difficult, merely a choice to see.
.
Pic, above, here.
A thread amongst those who have figured out how to have a garden, above.
Pic, above, here.
A competitive tennis player from ages 11-17, won tournaments & titles, never played again. Why? Found a bigger game. Gardening has no opponent, instead a partner, Nature. Decades gardening, still learning, huge gulps. Humbling. At most my gardening is smiled upon, Nature allows it within her domain, for a time. Nature, in honesty, CEO not partner. I cleave to that fact, in all my gardening. Had thought of this as a 'good selfishness' for decades, until realizing, it is grace.
Pic, above, here.
.
Doesn't matter, above, if photo shopped. Its sentiment true. Serendipities a Garden gifts arrive upon the wind, without ceasing.
.
If you've read this far you are aware this is about gardens, not landscape-mow-blow-go-commodify-all-touched with monthly contract.
.
My clients are of 2 stripes. Already whole & thriving or recently spit out by life into their new chapter/book of living whole. I know you're smiling. Becoming whole is the story of the Velveteen Rabbit. A lot of roughing up, it takes, becoming real, living whole.
.
Two spots of red, top pic, for those who see the whole picture.
.
Garden & Be Well, XO T
Just plain brilliant! All of it!
ReplyDeleteDid you do your speech in Southern California? Down near San Diego???
Tara,
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy your writing. and your gardening inspiration..
vanishing threshhold..one of my mantras now..
Love,
Mona