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Quotes from the Garden

1/1/2019

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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 Photo and design by Tara Gill
When kids grow beans, kids eat beans! -A Wise Man

Gardening is not a rational act. -Margaret Atwood Photo and design by Tara Gill
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 Photo and Design by Tara Gill
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 Photo and Design by Tara Gill
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 photo and design by Tara Gill
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. Pearl S Buck
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The Way

5/17/2015

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What's in the way is the way. Tara Gill

What's in the way is the way.

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Significant Battles

3/30/2015

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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?


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Control and happiness

12/8/2014

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Basing our happiness on our ability to control everything is futile.
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
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Finding your way

12/1/2014

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If light is in your heart you will find your way home. -Rumi
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Branches and Roots

11/17/2014

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Maybe you are searching among the branches for what only appears in the roots. Rumi, photo by Tara Gill
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Plant Seeds

11/10/2014

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Don't Judge each day by the harvest your reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Robert Louis Stevenson

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Seeing

11/2/2014

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Close both eyes to see with the other eye. – Rumi

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Curiosity

10/28/2014

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Quote: The cure for boredom is curiosity. There in no cure for curiosity. -Dorothy Parker
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 .
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Movement & Stillness

10/20/2014

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Quote: Movement is time, but stillness is eternity. -Joseph Campbell
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An Open Heart

10/13/2014

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You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. -Rumi
We have to keep breaking your heart until it opens. -Rumi
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Fields of Flowers

10/3/2014

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To wander in the fields of flowers pull the thorns from your heart. -Rumi

To wander in the fields of flowers pull the thorns from your heart. -Rumi

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True Answers

9/29/2014

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Your true answers are below the surface of the daily mind. -Tama Kieves

Your true answers are below the surface of the daily mind. Tama Kieves

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Color and Shape

9/24/2014

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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

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Bold Genius

9/22/2014

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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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