Plotting Resurrection – Sept. 30, 2022
“E.B. White watched his wife Katharine planning the planting of bulbs in her garden in the last autumn of her life and later wrote about it: “There was something comical yet touching in her bedraggled appearance… The small hunched-over figure, her studied absorption in the implausible notion that there would be yet another spring, oblivious […]
In Small Things – Nov. 30, 2021
“I sometimes think that perhaps our minds are too weak to grasp joy or sorrow except in small things. Joy in fresh fragrance of flowers, or warmth of a fire, or a handshake. Sorrow in fading flowers, a lost dog, a fretful child’s cry. In the big things joy and sorrow are just alike—overwhelming. At […]
Radiant Wholeness
As Lent approaches, I am watching the slow miracle of orchids opening on my windowsill. Fleshy green leaves brush the chilled glass as a third flower opens from the line of buds. Amid other mementos on the sill, deep crimson stipples the white petals and a golden throat opens. Its radiance stuns me awake. Outside, […]
Mindful Winter Flower Arranging Workshop
with Grace Dickerson Sunday, February 24, 2019 – 1-4pm This is your chance to learn some helpful techniques about flower arranging while allowing the flowers to share their gifts with you. We will arrange flowers mindfully, not trying to dominate the flowers to make them look attractive, but rather letting the flowers speak. While some vases will be […]
