your "secret garden" dreams can come true

http://www.gardenconservancy.org/opendays/

There is something mysterious we all love about the idea of a ”Secret Garden”. Reading about them is one thing, but visiting one….who knew you could? Now is our chance! Stroll through winding paths overflowing with luscious plants. The Garden Conservancy recruits regional representatives to seek out unique and inspirational private gardens all across the United States in an effort to open them up for public viewing. This project is called “The Open Days Program”. Over 350 landscapes participate from March through the fall each year. Purchase tickets for only $5 per person! Bring the kids, ages 12 and under are FREE! NO RESERVATION REQUIRED! Visit the above link for schedules, locations and more information. These gardens are the the private yards of gardening lovers! They are not your typical parks and gardens designed for “Open To The Public” visitors.

right brain, euphoria, creativity...

those are all the things I have or will look into after seeing this video: let me know if or it doesn't work or just go to ted.com and click on most emailed videos and then find the one jill something or other, its on of the top ones.

Change of Heart

I just read Jodi Picoult's Change of Heart. It's full of paradoxes. Her main character is sentenced to death for killing a little girl and a cop but then when he's in prison he starts performing miracles and he is beleived by some to be Jesus. All the while he's trying to get permission to donate his heart to the sister of the girl who as it turns out was killed during a fight with her father, the cop because he caught the father molesting the girl and he went for the gun and she got shot and then the main character did kill the father. Finally, he quotes to his spiritual advisor (who was on the jury that convicted him) supposedly ancient texts that aren't in the bible today called the gospel of Thomas but his miracles start going wrong. So, he gets executed, the girl gets the heart and then he "appears" to his spiritual advisor in the form of a photo of the advisor and his grandfather that was stolen from him before the trial and it was wrapped in a page that contained the gospel of Thomas. We hear from the girl with the heart at the end of the book and then while she's talking she realizes that her dog is dead. She picks his cold body up and screams "NO!, NO!" and her mother runs upstairs to see why she's yelling and the dog is back from the dead.

Reading this book reminds me of when I was giving birth to Maggie. The doctor gave me all kinds of drugs to "stop the pain" but all they did was get me fucked up. So I realized that the drugs the nuses gave me and all the twists in this book that the author provides are all just to keep you quiet/or busy while they do what they need to do.