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For over three decades it has been my daily habit to spend a part of each early morning in the garden. I have loved this simple practice as it has enabled me to begin the day breathing in the fresh morning air, awakening and renewing my body and preparing me for the day’s work. It has also served as a lovely transition from the night’s dreamstate to the workaday world, a perfect time to be thoughtful about what blessed wisdom the garden has to offer. I’ve always found that the simplest act such as pulling weeds or pruning roses stirs in me the most profound insights about the nature of life, and I trust that all the gardeners in the world who chance upon this book will know exactly what I mean. As a gardening blogger I’ve had the opportunit ...more

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Happy New Year to my faithful subscribers! May 2026 be one of your best gardening years ever! The focus of this post is to share my recent interview with Francis Van de Vogt who lives in Poland and is found on LinkedIn at Enlightened Leadership. In spite of one more round of some tech challenges I am here posting our recent interview, recorded right before Christmas, in which I introduce Francis t

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“A simple question. A simple answer. What opportunities lie within our reach that hold the power to make a difference in the quality of the lives of others simply by sharing the bounties and blessings that grace our lives?”
Kathryn Hall, Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden

“Cultivate plants which attract lovely company.”
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“Feel not obliged to make good use of every ripe fruit on the vine.”
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“A simple question. A simple answer. What opportunities lie within our reach that hold the power to make a difference in the quality of the lives of others simply by sharing the bounties and blessings that grace our lives?”
Kathryn Hall, Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden

“What wild undisturbed corners do you leave within you or within your partner, your children, your parents, your closest friends? What is left respectfully and quietly for passive cultivation, for privacy, for the imagination, for discovery, for serendipity, for faith, for secrecy, for grace, for reverence, for the untapped, for the future, for the unknowable and the unknown?”
Kathryn Hall, Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden

“Feel not obliged to make good use of every ripe fruit on the vine.”
Kathryn Hall, Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden
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“Gently guide the tender vine else it become wild, tangled and impossible.”
Kathryn Hall, Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden
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“Cultivate plants which attract lovely company.”
Kathryn Hall, Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden

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