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Seed Scattering: Reclining
Olivia Laing The Lonely City She has evoked the dilapidated piers of New York City as both site of danger and utopia. Especially for David Wojnarowicz. One passage is not only poignant but also perversely powerful — a favourite picture … Continue reading
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Quatres Saisons – Kindness, unbribed.
A Little Chaos is about garden features (a dance space at Versailles). It is also a film about women. This is perhaps no where more evident than in the hinge scene that carries the heroine, Sabine de Barra, through to … Continue reading
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Earth Spell
The opening lines of “With the Earth of the Garden Still on Them” My hands with the earth of the garden still on them, dirt worked under the nails, into the creases of knuckle, palm, life line, heart line. Sullen … Continue reading
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Postcolonial Posey
Take the ending of “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth For oft when on my couch I lie In vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude, And … Continue reading
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Garden Views
Joseph Addison Spectator No. 63 [The forms of wit: an allegorical analysis] edited by John Loftis The essay outlines in a Spenser-like fashion the domain of the goddess of Falsehood and the minions of mixed wit to culminate at the … Continue reading
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A Temporal Take on Vegetation Observation
Forest for the trees. Ilona Bell on gardening as reported in the Harvard Magazine: She does have some advice, though, for those seeking a perennial philosophy. “If you want a garden to look good,” she says, “you have to pay … Continue reading
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The Tackiness in Tacky
Katharine Washburn and John S. Major include in their edition of World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse From Antiquity to Our Time excerpts from The Mercian Hymns by Geoffrey Hill where one finds the intriguing line Candles of gnarled resin, … Continue reading
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Let Us
The image is from a greeting card copyright 1981 with the following credits: created by Scott Alyn and artist June Wood. The card came with seeds. The punning didn’t stop at the cover. Inside were planting instructions: Lettuce Seeds Plant … Continue reading
AWCG
I like to categorize these fixtures in the Alex Wilson Community Garden as vernacular architecture. A visitor to the community garden can look up and see against the wall of the building adjacent to the garden a pipe. Following the … Continue reading
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Nature Parks Can Not Do
The Alex Wilson Community Garden has a sign at its entrance. On that sign is an Ojibway proverb (“The bush is sitting under a tree and singing”), a quotation from the writing of Alex Wilson and Wilson’s date of birth … Continue reading
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