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Garden Romanticism: A Haven Connecting Worlds

1/31/2021

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A Japanese garden scene from a chickee in Keitaku-en.jpg
By Photo by Laitche, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link

​Close your eyes and imagine yourself in a garden.  What do you see?  

Are you surrounded by towering trees, light peering through the canopy as shadows of leaves dance at your feet?  Are you under a solitary sycamore, grasses swaying in the breeze as clouds race overhead?  Perhaps you are upon a porch overlooking a vast collection of flowers on a light rainy day.

Are you sitting, head level with your surroundings?  Maybe you're standing to see as far as you possibly can.  Or perhaps you're lying on your back, viewing the world from the perspective of the plants themselves.

But most importantly, how do you feel?

Humans have quite a history with gardens and how they can act as a connection to the world around them.  How a garden makes one feel is an integral part of why people take the time to work and maintain these spaces.  While reading, I found that even though humanity's collective approach to gardening does change with time and culture, there is an underlying theme to our desire to garden.

Let's take a little journey together and rediscover the garden.

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Haikusday #59

1/26/2021

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​Points of spiral buds
Each branch meandering to
Crimson-laced fireworks
Haikusday # 59
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Haikusday #58

1/19/2021

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​No nobler a hill
The sky yet deems to fit a
Feather to its cap
Haikusday # 58
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Haikusday #57

1/12/2021

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​Bark smoldered and doused
Snowfall upon hollow mound
Rests its shivered crown
Haikusday # 57
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Haikusday #56

1/5/2021

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​Antlered brow of bone
Each turn, time-telling wisdom 
Spiraled majesty
Haikusday # 56
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