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Kathryn Hall

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Home & Garden, Religion & Spirituality, Self Help

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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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Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden

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Dear Plant Whatever Brings You Joy readers,

This post announces that I have begun to do interviews on behalf of Plant Whatever Brings You Joy: Blessed Wisdom from the Garden once again. My first interview takes place tomorrow, November 20, at 9:00AM (PT) on LinkedIn with podcaster Francis Van de Logt in Poland! You will need to have an account on LinkedIn to view. Access Francis’s strea

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The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration

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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

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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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“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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“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

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“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