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spring devotional

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)

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Daffodils

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 […]

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tree of life

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 […]

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Afternoon on a Hill

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 […]

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“a leader must also tend his garden”

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 […]

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the family garden

Posted in Inspiration on Sep 5th, 2007 No Comments »

I garden because I grew up in a garden. My mother has always been a gardener and my grandmother was always a gardener. One day I awoke and realized that gardening made sense more that anything else I could do. Above is a picture of my grandmother’s garden, in Cape Town, South […]

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