Garden tour
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You be you
“Forget popularity; focus on sincerity. Do what you do, not for applause, but because it is what is right for you. Practice respecting yourself and becoming a reliable part of your own support system.” ~Angel Chernoff, Marc and Angel Hack Life The word “popularity” immediately sends me back to junior high school. This quote from Marc and Angel Chernoff got me thinking about the interesting difference between sincerity and popularity. When we focus on being “popular,” we might value the number of friends we have rather than the quality of their character. (This is especially true when we use social media.) Popularity involves striving for approval and applause — or conformity — no…
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Inspired gardening
“A garden should make you feel you’ve entered privileged space — a place not just set apart but reverberant — and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry.” ~Michael Pollan, Second Nature: A Gardener’s Education Gardening is one of the healthiest ways to express our creativity. It’s a great way to absorb Vitamin D while plotting borders or containers of colorful blooms, plunging our hands in water and soil, and inhaling the deep-green aromas of rosemary, thyme, and basil. I owe my mother a bucket of gratitude for inspiring my passion…
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Positive gardening
“I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts, but they needed constant attention, and one day I decided I had better things to do.” ~Brian Andreas Photo by Cindy La Ferle
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Reaching out
“You can’t stay in your corner of the woods waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.” ~A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh “Dickie” / Cindy La Ferle ______________________ To view additional content, or to share on social media, please visit the home page.
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Genuine generosity
“Being kind to someone — only for the sake of appearing generous — defeats the purpose of being kind.” ~Shannon L. Alder “Enough to share” / Cindy La Ferle ________ For social media sharing options and more content, please visit the home page.
