my healing environment

My Healing Environment: 

My Healing Environment

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I chose to show you my garden. This is a place where my babies play and bark at the neighbors, I am sure to them the barking is very healing.  For me I am at home, safe , and sound. The world out there is the world out there and I am here with the ones I love.

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“HEALING,” PAPA WOULD TELL ME, 'IS NOT A SCIENCE, BUT THE INTUITIVE ART OF WOOING NATURE.' W. H. AUDEN

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Being in the desert and watching things grow is amazing!

A river runs through it. : 

A river runs through it.

This plant was once a runt. : 

This plant was once a runt.

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I AM NOT BOUND FOR ANY PUBLIC PLACE, BUT FOR GROUND OF MY OWN WHERE I HAVE PLANTED VINES AND ORCHARD TREES, AND IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY CLIMBED UP INTO THE HEALING SHADOW OF THE WOODS. WENDELL BERRY

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“FOR ME, GARDENING IS A FORM OF PRAYER. MOST PEOPLE HAVE AN AWARENESS OF LIFE AND DEATH, BUT FEW HAVE AN AWARENESS OF LIFE, DEATH, AND LIFE AGAIN. GARDENERS DO THOUGH. BULBS COME UP EVERY SPRING. THEN IN WINTER, IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S NOTHING THERE, NO HOPE FOR LIFE EVER AGAIN. THEN, HALLELUJAH! NEXT SPRING THEY'RE BACK EVEN FULLER. PERENNIALS - SAME THING.

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ANNUALS HAVE A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT LESSON. ANNUALS REALLY DO DIE, BUT THEY BROADCAST SEEDS BEFORE THEY GO. WHERE THERE WAS ONLY ONE CALENDULA THE YEAR BEFORE, THERE WILL BE TEN THIS YEAR, AND ONE DAY, THEY WILL FILL EVERY EMPTY SPACE IN YOUR GARDEN.

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ANNUALS ARE A LESSON IN THE DIFFERENCE ONE LIVING THING, PLANT OR PERSON, CAN MAKE, AND HOW THEIR PRESENCE RESONATES LONG AFTER THEY'RE GONE. THERE AGAIN, THE EFFECTS ARE NOT IMMEDIATE. THERE IS ALWAYS THE WINTER. AND WHEN YOU CONSIDER THE GARDEN AS A WHOLE, WELL, WINTER IS A TIME TO REFLECT, A TIME TO DREAM. IT GIVES YOU TIME TO ASK THE BIG QUESTIONS...

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GARDENING IS AN AFFIRMATION OF DIVINE TIMING. SOME YEARS, IN EARLY SPRING, MY ENTHUSIASM TAKES AN UGLY TURN, AND I SEEMINGLY BELIEVE I CAN MAKE SPRING HAPPEN EARLIER THAN IT NORMALLY WOULD, IF I JUST WORK HARD ENOUGH, IF I TILL ENOUGH, COMPOST ENOUGH, HARDEN OFF SEEDLINGS EARLIER THAN I NORMALLY WOULD.

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IN THE END, I WIND UP WITH TWELVE FLATS OF DEAD SEEDLINGS. THEN I DIRECT SEED A COUPLE MONTHS LATER, AND WITH MUCH LESS EFFORT, EVERYTHING GROWS INTO THE FULL GLORY IT WAS DESTINED TO ENCOMPASS. TO EVERYTHING THERE IS A SEASON. AMEN.” KAYA MCLAREN