How do you go from gardening on a ‘hum drum’, or even ‘horrific’ piece of land to creating the garden that you never dreamt possible on that same property? Is it possible? Or is it the stuff of fairy tales? I know for a fact that it can be done because that’s exactly what [...]
You may see the ‘TO DO’ lists in your life and garden as a necessity. The problem is that the majority of the time they make you feel lousy. Why? The ‘productive you’ writes a list of everything you plan on getting done each day. If you’re like most people, your list is way too [...]
Gardeners strive for beauty. We work endless hours, season after season, and year after year. Designing, planting, and tending to our gardens. With the hope that we can capture some moments of perfection. Moments where we sigh and experience a sense of ‘something other’ than our regular state of being. Where the exquisiteness overwhelms us. [...]
In my last Digging Deep post, we began discussing the process of creativity and the possibility of learning to live a more creative life, in and out of the garden. The subject of this second workshop is to explore Stage One of the creative process: it is Imagining, what I call the sparks of creativity. To imagine [...]
Over the next couple of months, I’m trying something a bit different on GGW. I’ll be exploring the 7 steps in the creative process through a series of posts and creativity exercises based on my book, Digging Deep: Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Gardening (now also out in Kindle). Consider it an online “class” whose goal is to facilitate you [...]