What if becoming who and what we truly are happens
not through striving and trying
but by recognizing and receiving
the people and places and practices
that offer us the warmth of encouragement
when we need to unfold?
How would this shape the choices
you make about how to spend today?
Oriah Mountain Dreamer
(1954 to pres., spiritual teacher, story teller, poet)
so happy to hear that May!
My peach seedlings are popping up also...more than I need but it doesn't look like my bearing trees will have many fruits this year and I'll need some replacements for the ones I expect to die soon from bore damage...I'm determined to get out ahead of the borers one day.
It will be interesting to see how your pears turn out...maybe you'll have a winner!
Our last apple died from borer damage. The pippin I started from seed ten years ago and had hopes it would make it but I didn't take any proactive measures. It does have three nice sprouts at the base and I have three tiny trees from last years seeds so the 'trip apple' is still in the works.
I have way too much elephant garlic planted but I really love it to 'mark' young plants visually and the blooms are so striking and popular with the pollinators.
To live without forgiveness
is to live separated from the sacred
and from the most basic instincts of our heart.
To live with forgiveness
is to reveal in each moment the beauty
and value of life.
To live with forgiveness
is to choose in each moment
an active role in creating relationships,
organizations, communities,
and a world that works for everyone.
Robin Casarjian
(founder and director of the Lionheart Foundation
and its National Emotional Literacy Projects)
Hi Aru!
my pots are 18" tall and 21"-22" across and seem to be big enough for 2- 3 roots in each.
They are from our feed store where they are sold full a sweet feed for cattle and when empty returned to the feed store to be sold as big empty tubs. They are heavy walled so outlast most other pots to plant in. I drill holes in the bottom.
Clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.
Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.
Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism,
while messes are the artist's true friend.
What people somehow forgot to mention when we were children
was that we need to make messes
in order to find out who we are and why we are here.
"Tonight we ask all of you to join with us in choosing hope over fear, democracy over authoritarianism, the rule of law over lawlessness, ethics over unrivaled corruption, resistance over complacency, truth over lies, unity over division, and peace over war.”
Bruce Springsteen’s opening last night at his concert in Los Angeles
John C Daley wrote:Firstly look at ball valves, they have less resistance for water flow and pressure.
With pumps are you going for a submersible or a suction pump?
we were looking at jet pumps, not submersable pumps.
