I’ve been thinking about pruning lately. I’ve experienced some “pruning” in my life in the past few months. Pruning changes things in dramatic fashion. What was is now gone. New opportunities, even though it’s a…Continue Reading
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Change is inevitable. Stay grounded.
The garden changes rapidly in the month of June. We plant in May, and as the weather warms in June with long days of sunshine, change comes at us fast. The tomato plants and cucumbers…Continue Reading
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Focus on the Positive
It’s easy to focus on the negative. That’s why a focus on the positive is a great discipline. I have always said that gratitude and attitude are not a “challenge”. They are a “choice”. So…Continue Reading
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Arbor Day Musings of Perseverance
There are gardens to grow, seeds to sow, trees to plant and relationships to nurture. As we do this we reflect like Jefferson on the finiteness of our own lifespan. If we can balance inevitable change with well grounded unshakeable virtues and beliefs, we temper some of the sadness of time wasted and opportunities squandered. We make a difference.
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An Earth Day Story
In the American colonies intellectual ferment sowed the seeds of revolution by the likes of Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, Ben Franklin, James Madison, George Washington and Jared Eliot. Jared Eliot? Jared Eliot was a…Continue Reading