May 4, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – May 4 My former neighbor, Mary Adams Plumer, died yesterday. I write her whole name because I want it to be recorded somewhere. She didn’t have children, so it’s unlikely that a future relative might be searching for information about her. She...
May 3, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – May 3 Chases Calendar of Events has listed May 3rd as Garden Meditation day. As part of Gifts From The Garden Month, the third day of May has been designated as the time to remember that we don’t have to sit still to meditate. Meditation is...
May 2, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – May 2 The second day in Gifts From The Garden Month is dedicated to appreciating how the garden offers us a widow into the natural world. Some might be content with planting their geraniums and Dracaena spikes every year and not thinking any...
May 1, 2010 | Life's Gardens, my gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – May 1 When I was a girl, my mother made sure that we celebrated May Day. We’d make a cone out of paper, tape or staple a handle on it, and add flowers, small candies or gum. Once the basket was finished and filled, we’d hang it on a neighbor’s...
Apr 30, 2010 | Life's Gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – April 30 Two years ago I decided to create my own month of holidays. Well, not a festival or vacation occasion, in the normal sense of the word, but a marking and a celebration. On the order of National Pickle Day, or International Speak Like a...
Apr 29, 2010 | Life's Gardens, Report From PIA
Report From PIA – April 29 Are the connections we make with other people what makes our work meaningful? Are the ways our gardens allow us to touch each other significant? I was at a speakers’ forum today and friend and fellow speaker Rich Pomerantz said that as...
