Conversations With May Sarton

Plant Dreaming Deep, by May Sarton.  

"We have to make myths of our lives....to understand the metaphor that reality always holds in it.  .....What I felt when all the good news came...was relief.  But what I had felt when I got back to poetry...was joy."
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Joy vs. relief.  A good pair of words to remember.  Without awareness gardening has always been my joy, never a relief.
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"A garden is a perpetual experiment."  Oh, it's tough reading May Sarton at bedtime.   No, my garden is a perpetual atonement.
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Yes, I've been laying in bed the past few nights in conversation with May Sarton.
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Garden & Be Well,       XO Tara
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Antebellum home near Bishop, GA.