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The Garden: How Connected Are We?
Recently I saw the movie The Hundred-Foot Journey. No spoilers here, but the movie did raise, over and over again, connections between unlikely and unsuspecting people. An Indian family having moved to France after civil unrest destroyed their family owned restaurant finds … Continue reading
The Garden: Which Reality?
There is a vast difference between the way human beings experience the world, and how most other animals do. This is often difficult for us to remember – that what we perceive as reality is actually an edited version, based … Continue reading
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The Garden: The Stages
I’ve been in the garden, gardening, planning to garden, and looking forward to gardening all my life. Which is to say: there are discernible phases to life, and the garden keeps reminding me. There is the garden in spring. The … Continue reading
The Garden: The Mess
Gardening is messy, any way you slice it. We do love, however, the archetypal image of The Garden. The Garden of Paradise. The Secret Garden. The Hanging Gardens. The Garden of Eden. The Garden of Earthly Delights. The reality is … Continue reading
The Garden: Garden of Eden; a new fable
We’ve all heard the traditional interpretation of the story of the Garden of Eden, but Rabbi Harold Kushner (best known for his book “When Bad Things Happen to Good People”) offers a different take on the story. God tells Adam, … Continue reading
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The Garden: Back to the Beginning
About 3.7 billion years ago, life came to be on the earth. The Bible tells the story thus: In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth and the beasts of the fields and the fish of the seas, … Continue reading
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