by Martha Brettschneider | Sep 18, 2013 | Feng Shui/Clutter Clearing, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness
Sometimes it has to get really noisy before we can realize inner peace. Who could have guessed that a pressure washer would become my latest spiritual teacher, or at least a new favorite in my positive energy toolbox? I gave the pressure washer to my husband for...
by Martha Brettschneider | Sep 5, 2013 | Meditation, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness
Everyone has many associations with a flower – the idea of flowers. You put out your hand to touch the flower – lean forward to smell it – maybe touch it with your lips almost without thinking – or give it to someone to please them. Still – in a way – nobody...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jul 15, 2013 | Mindful Gardening
“There are always flowers for those who want to see them.” ~ Henri Matisse I just learned about this cool gig that garden bloggers have going. The 15th of every month is designated as Garden Blogger’s Bloom Day, with bloggers posting about...
by Martha Brettschneider | Jul 11, 2013 | Life Lessons, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness, Most Popular Posts
As my Facebook friends know, it’s been a wild week. Wild highs, wild lows, the best and worst of wild. It really started a few weeks ago, when the wrens started nesting in the birdhouse right outside my kitchen window. That would be the same birdhouse I...
by Martha Brettschneider | May 21, 2013 | Life Lessons, Mindful Gardening
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. ~ Gertrude Jekyll “Timing is everything,” my garden whispered to me a few weeks ago. It was somewhere between late...
by Martha Brettschneider | May 11, 2013 | Life Lessons, Mindful Gardening, Mindfulness, Most Popular Posts, Motivation
My whole life has been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God’s presence, the kind of transcendent, magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first compost heap. ~ Bette Midler I hope the...
