A Mystic Garden

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A Mystic Garden Working With Soil, Attending to Soul"How strange and mysterious are the ways of God. Not greening, not flowering may be a path to the center as well. Acceptance of yourself as you are and others as they are is the true potting soil. All growth starts there."The

garden is a place for learning patience, letting go of our need to

control, and losing our expectations of how things will turn out in the

end. Whether writing about drainage, companion planting, staking,

weeding, blooming, beetles, or pruning; the author mines the meanings

in these activities and helps us to savor the spiritual lessons that

lie in all that we do.Gunilla Norris"Gardening lets us participate in the process that is life.From the greening of the shoot to the dying-off of the flower. The

planning and the imagining of the garden — from poring through seed

catalogs to eyeing the plants in a nursery to designing the layout of

beds and space — make us co-creators with nature and, in a true sense,

realizers of potential. There

is something 'heartening' about growing a plant from seed and seeing it

flower, or eating a tomato grown on your own vine. For most of us, too, the time we spend in a garden constitutes our main life-line to the natural world."Love~All~Ways~Karma