Look fear in the face...

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Conquer Fear

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.
Dorothy Thompson

Wish Someone Joy

"When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness...
all the good things.”
Maya Angelou

the picture above is "Jump for Joy" by Angie Hoover

Each Friend..

"Each friend represents a world in us,
a world possibly not born until they arrive,
and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anais Nin

The Earth...

"The earth laughs in flowers.”
E. E. Cummings

picture found here

Joy is...

"Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm
and our intelligence aglow”
Helen Keller

Playground

"The world is a playground, and life is pushing my swing.”
Natalie Kocsis

Laugh

"When you realize how perfect everything is you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky”
Buddha

picture found here

Birds

“A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song.”

Maya Angelou

Without Music....

“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

picture found here

Dance in the rain...

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass,
it's about learning to dance in the rain."

We Dance.....

“We don’t have ideology. We don’t have theology. We dance.” Shinto priest to Joseph Campbell

While I dance......

"While I dance I cannot judge,
I cannot hate,
I cannot separate myself from my life.
I can only be joyful and whole.
That is why I dance."
Hans Bos

Interconnected...

This planet is an exquisitely arranged and interconnected system.
What's controlled in one place is going to have consequences in another place.

Our job as gardeners is to try and figure this out no matter how small our allotted space might be.
Discipline has to be the watchword for our controlling hands.

It means not gardening without thinking of the garden as a habitat: for mice, for squirrels, for bees and wasps.

For other living creatures beyond ourselves.
Marjorie Harris, In the Garden, 1995