Posted in Inspiration on Mar 3rd, 2009 1 Comment »
Each year on my Birthday, I am retold the story of the day a large bouquet of pink roses unexpectedly arrived. My mother’s great friend Big Emma sent the fitting flowers to the hospital before receiving official news of my much anticipated birth. My parents had had to wait nine difficult years for a second [...]
Posted in Inspiration on Oct 30th, 2008 No Comments »
I have been somewhat coerced, by a trusted elderly friend, into reading an Opera pick: A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose by Eckhart Tolle.
I continue to hold on to an image of an abandoned building that nature reinhabits as described by Tolle in the following passage: “We came upon the ruins of what [...]
Posted in Inspiration on Oct 17th, 2008 1 Comment »
Garden sculpture made with recycled materials rescued from local construction site.
Artist & Gardener Extraordinaire: Moira Rooney (My Mom)
Posted in Inspiration on Jul 31st, 2008 No Comments »
Posted in In & Around the Neighbourhood, Inspiration on Jul 29th, 2008 No Comments »
Genoa Bay, British Columbia.
Posted in Inspiration on Mar 26th, 2008 No Comments »
As plants germinate in earth’s soil
And rain streams down from heaven above,
So love awakens in human hearts
And wisdom flows to human spirits.
-Rudolf Steiner (1861 – 1925)
Posted in Inspiration on Mar 26th, 2008 1 Comment »
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw [...]
Posted in Inspiration on Feb 17th, 2008 2 Comments »
I just finished reading one of my father’s recommendations, Man’s Search for Meaning, by the Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor Viktor E. Frankl. Frankl describes an experience he witnessed that speaks to a spiritual relationship between people and trees. This is a story from a concentration camp of a young [...]
Posted in Inspiration on Jan 27th, 2008 No Comments »
I will be th gladdest thing
Under the sun!
I will touch a hundred flowers
And not pick one.
I will look at the cliffs and clouds
With quiet eyes,
Watch the wind bow down the grass,
And the grass rise.
And when lights begin to show
Up from the town,
I will mark which must be mine,
And then start down!
-Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 [...]
Posted in Horticultural Therapy, Inspiration on Oct 6th, 2007 No Comments »
Last Friday, as a new member, I attended the Canadian Horticultural Therapy Association (CHTA) Annual General Meeting held at the Toronto Botanic Garden. The CHTA began in 1978 and was incorporated in 1987. Its mission is to promote the use of horticultural therapy and since 1997 has provided members the option of voluntary [...]
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