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Tall Jeff's avatar

I am reminded of "Bunny" Mellon of Oak Spring Garden in Virginia, saying

"Gardens like many beautiful things one thinks will never change – never cease to be what they are, never die – they follow the cycle of all living things, never remaining the same. Take notes to help remind those in later years of all they possessed so that they may imagine dreams and perhaps renew part of what has been."

Her gardens are a bit on the structured side, but I cannot deny they affect me. My accidental gardening fixation is the bleeding heart, dicentras. To me a rose bush is a fine defensive line.

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Bob's avatar

"I cannot write what I know, as the phrase goes, but I can write what I’m learning." — where's this from? I love it.

I was talking yesterday with a friend who's been making pottery. There's so much knowledge that comes from the doing of a thing that is unrelated to conceptual or verbal knowledge. It's humbling to step into a new practice, and at the same time it's expansive. You get the sense of entering into a whole world.

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