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When I helped start a garden at my son's school, we plastered quotes around the campus with garden quotes to get students and staff intrigued about the opening. I used my images and some wise words. Enjoy!  When kids grow beans, kids eat beans! -A Wise Man  Gardening is not a rational act. -Margaret Atwood  Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson  A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. -Doug Larson  Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. Pearl S Buck
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 I've found this true. I'm in transition. My only child is going to kindergarten in the fall and my husband is embarking on a career he loves. I can get behind that.
But gone is the steady paycheck and I enter the world of having to step up in a bigger way. I've decided to look for a job. I've spoken with a number of mothers who reentered the 'workforce' after a significant absence and they all echoed my feelings of hitting walls within. This quote is so apt. I've gained an amazing array of skills, honed my talents, worked and earned income as an artist, delved inside to discover who I am and what I stand for. And yet, when it comes to really feel that accomplishment in my bones, there's a nagging voice that says its just not good enough! So begins the process of restructuring the self from the inside out. Of acceptance. Of starting where you are. Of getting the support you need to inch forward. And most importantly being kind to oneself. What battles have you waged within? What helped you through?  I'm noticing how much my mind believes that if others do what I want them to do, I will be happy, so I wanted to point the flashlight on that idea in this weeks quote. Folly indeed. Yet, it is habitual and human. It comes up most often with my husband and child.
What does your mind tell you you need to control the most? Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile. -Stephen R. Covey  Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson
 The cure for boredom is curiosity. There in no cure for curiosity. -Dorothy Parker
With thanks for the quote to Jill Berry, map-maker and explorer .  We have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. -Rumi  To wander in the fields of flowers pull the thorns from your heart. -Rumi  Your true answers are below the surface of the daily mind. Tama Kieves  I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way. Quote by Georgia O'Keeffe Dalia by the colorful universe Photo by Tara Gill  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it. Quote by Goethe. Photo designed by Tara Gill. Geranium petals by the bold universe. |
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