I needed a break. A break from dry brown land. A break for high heat. A break from discouragement and depression. I went and visited my sister, Dena, in Billings. I knew she would have a lush green yard, and she and I would find numerous reasons to laugh and celebrate. With the frustrations we are all having right now because of the grass-hopers, the heat, and the outcome of a horrible storm, the trouble is we sit in our air-conditioned homes and wait for a different outcome. There are oases out there; plan to go and have a mini-vacation, even if it's just a few hours or overnight. Go where there is beauty and laughter. Do something to feed the soul and find a way to breathe in. God will meet you. While I was there, I got up early while everyone was sleeping and wandered around in her garden barefoot. It was cool to my skin. It was beautiful!
"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine for the soul." Luther Burbank "Little things seem nothing, but they give peace, like those meadow flowers which individually seem odorless but all together perfume the air." Georges Bernanos "I know that if odor were visible, as color is, I'd see the summer garden in rainbow clouds. " Robert Bridges "Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts. "Sigmund Freud "And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair. " Khalil Gibran "Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace. " May Sarton "Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers. "May Sarton
