Tag: garden
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Sacred Space: An Outdoor Altar
A simple and discreet outdoor altar To you, it’s a very simple, very discreet outdoor altar and stone circle. To your neighbors, your in-laws, your kids’ friends, and the meter reader, this arrangement looks like a stone bench or possibly a table in your garden, and a circular path. All you need to shift between…
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How a Pagan Goes to Church: The Surprise Lily
This week’s visit to the Cathedral of Nature as always brings wonder and joy to my heart. Last year, I picked up an unusual lily in the supermarket, brought it home, and let it bloom out. When the lily had died back a bit, I planted it at my front door, half-convinced that I’d never…
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Chainsaws, Seeds, and Ex-Spouses
I think it’s a great thing when you can laugh about your ex-spouse. There’s got to be something that’s healed when instead of anger, you feel amusement. Yesterday, I spent a glorious Sunday afternoon in my garden. I haven’t spent much time there in the past few years. Last year, I was ill during planting…
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My Garden Gives Me Little Surprises (Or Is It the Fairies?)
” Will you dance with me, Mother of the World?” — Sharon Knight Sometimes, you find things in your garden that you’d forgotten. Mother’s Day was a little strange to me this year. The girls gave me some terrific presents, and afterward I took the girls to the farm to visit my mom, which was…
