Comments on: Healing gardens, Part 2: Your voices https://fleamarketgardening.org/2013/03/14/healing-gardens-part-2-your-voices/ Real people, real gardens, real projects Wed, 25 May 2016 14:40:13 +0000 hourly 1 By: Valorie https://fleamarketgardening.org/2013/03/14/healing-gardens-part-2-your-voices/#comment-18052 Wed, 25 May 2016 14:40:13 +0000 https://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=4416#comment-18052 Flea Market Gardening is my most favorite site of all. I have enjoyed so many of the most wonderful visits to your hearts, homes, gardens and special places. Without ever meeting you personally here on earth, I love each one of you and I pray God’s unique provision and awesome presence for all. You have all touched my heart again today. I say thank you to each and every one of you. …And now I will take along that which you have shared with me to my gardens and secret places. And there today, I will harvest the biggest eggplant I have ever seen! 😀

]]> By: Kim https://fleamarketgardening.org/2013/03/14/healing-gardens-part-2-your-voices/#comment-14245 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 13:18:29 +0000 https://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=4416#comment-14245 My daughter passed away suddenly at age 35 just two weeks ago. I have already been given a birdhouse in her memory. I have a small side garden outside my office that I plan to make into a memory garden for her and her son that died at birth. It has been comforting to read of others thoughts on the joy of gardening and its healing powers. This Spring will have significant meaning as I add new plants given to me in her memory and add some calla lilies, her favorite flower.

]]> By: Sue Langley https://fleamarketgardening.org/2013/03/14/healing-gardens-part-2-your-voices/#comment-12703 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 15:28:28 +0000 https://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=4416#comment-12703 In reply to Amy.

Thanks, Amy,..everyones stories here have touched a nerve and caused us to see how much we depend on gardening for therapy in one way or another.

]]> By: Amy https://fleamarketgardening.org/2013/03/14/healing-gardens-part-2-your-voices/#comment-12660 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 04:33:49 +0000 https://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=4416#comment-12660 What wonderful story’s each and everyone. I agree who could not like a garden? I pray for everyone who wrote your stories, that you keep healing. The pain does lesson over time, it’s been 25 years since I lost a friend to a house fire, I still think about her and one say I’ll see her again.. God Bless you all.

]]> By: Sue Langley https://fleamarketgardening.org/2013/03/14/healing-gardens-part-2-your-voices/#comment-12637 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 23:01:53 +0000 https://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=4416#comment-12637 In reply to Jeanne Sammons.

Thanks, Jeanne, our group is filled with the realest people, more like us then we know, joys and sorrows, families and animal friends…it’s nice to see that we fit in in any small way to bring thoughtfulness and a little enjoyment. This is a poem I haven’t seen before,…lovely.

]]> By: Jeanne Sammons https://fleamarketgardening.org/2013/03/14/healing-gardens-part-2-your-voices/#comment-12628 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 22:08:10 +0000 https://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=4416#comment-12628 Thank you, dear soulmate, for this beautiful blog sharing ‘Voices.’ What a privilege to be part of such a sharing & caring group who love to ‘dig in the dirt.’

One of my favorite garden thoughts is written by Emily Dickinson:
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,—
One clover, and a bee,
And revery.
The revery alone will do
If bees are few.”

]]> By: Sue Langley https://fleamarketgardening.org/2013/03/14/healing-gardens-part-2-your-voices/#comment-12623 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:02:40 +0000 https://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=4416#comment-12623 In reply to Nancy Meyer.

Thank you, Nancy, a lot of grief can be ‘buried’ in a garden it seems, digging and watching the seasons go by. Every minute is precious and I’m glad to spend many minutes in the garden… .

]]> By: Sue Langley https://fleamarketgardening.org/2013/03/14/healing-gardens-part-2-your-voices/#comment-12621 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:58:35 +0000 https://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=4416#comment-12621 In reply to jeanie.

Thank you, Jeanie, beautiful words,..I’m so glad to hear from someone who had the same experience as I,…it’s almost as if you were reading my thoughts. At a certain point, tears flowed for me and I’m so grateful for those who shared. Life is temporary and it’s a nice thought to think our families might do something as meaningful for us one day..I want to be remembered as loving the garden…

]]> By: Sue Langley https://fleamarketgardening.org/2013/03/14/healing-gardens-part-2-your-voices/#comment-12620 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:53:25 +0000 https://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=4416#comment-12620 In reply to bitsy08.

I made your correction, bitsy…no worries…and thank you for the very nice poem…

]]> By: bitsy08 https://fleamarketgardening.org/2013/03/14/healing-gardens-part-2-your-voices/#comment-12618 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:20:42 +0000 https://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=4416#comment-12618 In reply to bitsy08.

Correction:

]]> By: bitsy08 https://fleamarketgardening.org/2013/03/14/healing-gardens-part-2-your-voices/#comment-12617 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:18:56 +0000 https://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=4416#comment-12617 Here’s something I keep for those “gone before me.”
A shadow flits before me,
not thou, but like to thee.
Ah, Christ, that it were possible
for one short hour to see
the souls we loved, that they might tell us
what and where they be!
Alfred, Lord Tennyson,
Maud, 1855

]]> By: jeanie https://fleamarketgardening.org/2013/03/14/healing-gardens-part-2-your-voices/#comment-12616 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:15:43 +0000 https://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=4416#comment-12616 The first time I saw this, I scanned over it. You know… in too big a hurry with life and all of the things that keep us busy. Then, I sat down to rest… AND REST I DID!!!! With no radio or t.v. on and the only sound that of a gentle hum the computer I began reading these stories. Stories that warmed my heart as if I could hear each individual’s voice as they took turns telling of their losses and how gardening touched their souls and ultimately brought some inner comfort and peace. It wasn’t long before I could feel a tear roll down my face and my heart when out to each individual that told their story. Thanks to all who shared. I am sure for many of you, it wasn’t easy.I find myself many, many times sitting in my white rocking chair on the porch in the summertime, listening to the birds and drinking in the aroma with both my nose and my eyes of the awesome plants and blossoms around me and I am thankful for this thing called” gardening” that indeed is a beauty and a “healer” , as you have all shared as well. I have always appreciated the splendor of the gardens, but now they mean even a little more….Thank you Sue for offering this opportunity to those who in sharing, have done a little healing for others as well.

]]> By: Nancy Meyer https://fleamarketgardening.org/2013/03/14/healing-gardens-part-2-your-voices/#comment-12615 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:58:20 +0000 https://fleamarketgardening.org/?p=4416#comment-12615 I had tears in my eyes reading all the wonderful stories of the different healing gardens. Lots of grace found ‘digging’ in the dirt. Thanks for another great job, Sue.

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