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Gleanings From Living Long
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Category: Gardens
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Living close to water with the ocean breezes, the need for grounding arises from time to time. In Florida the live oak tree, so grand and elegant, is the perfect antidote. Well over 200 years old, these living monuments surprise and amaze with their sprawling limbs, thick crusty trunks and roots that…
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Have you ever noticed how frogs will sing right before it rains? This frog must be a prince, because what frog in his right mind would have an umbrella? A fat and happy prince at that. It's just about the silliest thing I've ever seen! Happy Monday!
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What do we look like to the butterfly – clumsy, mobile trees with no nectar to recommend us? If butterflies only live two weeks or so, and some trees live 300+ years, then the span of one human life must look to the tree the way that the butterfly's life looks to us…
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Life can be overwhelming at times – aging parents, sick children, losing a treasured pet. Even joy can flood the heart, so much beauty, so much love, so complex. That's where our friends come in. They walk with us even when we are apart and help us to make sense of our mortal lives.…
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October – harvests and bright moons, bales of hay and straw, pumpkins, ghosts and goblins, spider webs, dressing up and acting out. What was your favorite costume for Halloween? Mine was Robin Hood! I remember a burlap tunic, a bow and arrow and the perfect pointed hat. I think that my mother…
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An armadillo walks past a cat!
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What do you see when you enter a garden? What do you hear? Is there water falling nearby? A bird singing? Can you smell the lavender, or the damp earth? What do you see? Life is exploding all around us. Can you feel it?
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Delicate clinging vines – this is a time when clinging is good. Good for the vine and the wall benefits too, aesthetically. Is clinging ever good for us? We humans? Holding on to that good or bad feeling – joy or anger? Being in the moment is preferred, but if you have to cling, cling…
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