Tag: beauty

Absorb It!

Jennifred Jones

Out in the flower bed yesterday examining a purple aster closely…

I wanted to take in as much of my garden as possible….take a good long look at the blossoms, touch them, remember exactly how beautiful they are before they fade into winter when I can’t see them.

The thought, ‘I want to absorb their beauty’ crossed my mind. Yes, I want it to permeate my mental picture bank…store it up for later.

What I focus on intently might be absorbed into my mind…good or bad…that’s a sobering thought!

BUT! I can choose what I want to focus on, to absorb into my mind and heart, and if it is good and wholesome, that is what will come up and come out when times are tough. It can be a strength inside me. It will be a compass guiding me back to better thoughts.

What do I need to absorb more of today?

What do I want? Will it help me become a better person? Will it propel me to do more good in this world today?

Borrowed Beauty

Jennifred Jones

So you don’t have time, you don’t have space, you don’t have money to design, plan or develop your longed for garden oasis.

Maybe you don’t have a green thumb….NO problem!

Go take a walk, go to the park, the arboretum, a greenhouse, or open a picture book.

Drive to the river, follow the creek, go to the woods or fields where you can borrow other beauty to refresh yourself!

Stay as long as you need until you become and can feel good inside.

Borrow all you want! No check out, no late fees, but plenty of good returns!

REMAKE BEAUTY

Jennifred Jones

My backyard is filled with flowers, many are perennials designed to come up again so I don’t have to replant them every year.

So many colors and plant sizes and shapes, mixed together with my potteries and souvenirs from hiking expeditions; they all blend into a beautiful patchwork quilt of color and texture that give me such delight to look at, to touch and to share with others.

Anticipating an upcoming move, I am thinking how I will miss all this loveliness, remembering all the places I’ve been, all the people who have shared plants with me, wondering how much space I might have at my new home, and then what to grab and take along!

Generally, I have discovered when people move out, the new residents have different gardening tastes than I do, and often the garden areas are mowed over or converted into another type space.

That thought is tough, but ….. WAIT!!!

I will have a new palate to paint from, new plants to choose, new dirt to turn over and begin to make beauty all over again.

I won’t be giving anything up. That painting is finished, it added to my portfolio of gardening experience, and now is time to begin another painting.

I will remake my beauty again…another place!

Do you need to remake your own beauty somewhere today?

Where? How? Just begin!