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Category Archives: The Garden
My New Website Is Up!
Today is the day I’ve been waiting for. I’m moving. Not from my house, but to my new website is at: joanzrough.com. You’ll no longer find me here at the old address. But if you go to the one above you’ll … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, The Garden, The Journey, Writing
Tagged Feeding the Soul, flowers, Intentions, Moving Forward, nature, plants, Spring, Time
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Painting Spring
Water soaked grey sky pure tones of birch magnolia, forsythia spring green leaves redbud Raindrop music fills the air my paint brush drips with color JZR I made these photographs and wrote this poem back in April of 2008, posting … Continue reading
Posted in Being Creative, Books, Memoir, photography, Poetry, The Garden, The Seasons
Tagged arts, Change, journaling, Moving Forward, nature, new life, Painting, plants, Spring, wonder
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Don’ Give Up
I’ve been running into those words often for a couple of days now as I try to get myself back into my daily routine and at work on my memoir. It’s been a crazy couple of weeks in which the … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Dogs, family, Friendships, Gratefulness, Healing, Life, love, Memoir, Navigating Through Life, Quotes, The Garden, Time, Uncategorized, Wise Words, Writing
Tagged Easter, Grandchildren, Harry Potter, Intentions, joy, laughter, loss, Moving Forward, Shirley Showalter, Traveling, Virginia Festival of the Book
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Winter
On this day thirteen years ago, I wrote the following entry in my journal. “I love the winter landscape when the eye of God seems to be everywhere, and snow is a white backdrop for the dark forms of trees. … Continue reading
Winter Garden
“Go into the garden and try to learn the world that surrounds you. Look at how you’ve placed a stone. Now the trees and shrubs are bare you can more easily see how they harmonize with the garden. Imagine. Let … Continue reading
Posted in Quotes, The Garden, The Seasons, Trees, Wise Words
Tagged Feeding the Soul, Winter, wonder
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Living Simply
I thought yesterday was October first and here I am preparing for Thanksgiving. Why do I feel like I’m living in a time capsule that moves forward at a gazillion miles an hour? As a little kid, I felt time … Continue reading
Posted in Animals I Love, Childhood, Dreams, family, Gratefulness, Matters of the Spirit, Music, Navigating Through Life, Thanksgiving, The Garden, The Seasons
Tagged Aging, Feeding the Soul, Food, joy, love, snow
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All You Can Do
“All you can do is all you can do, and all you can do is enough.” A. L. Williams I got this fabulous quote from my brother, Zed. It’s perfect for someone like me, who is a perfectionist and an … Continue reading
Posted in Addiction, Childhood, family, Healthy Living, Matters of the Spirit, Mental Health, Navigating Through Life, Perfectionism, The Garden
Tagged joy, Moving Forward, roses, trust
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Change
Looking out my kitchen window, I notice the leaves on the dogwood in my neighbor’s yard are no longer their deep summer green. They are blotched with spots of rusty-red and the tree’s tiny berries are beginning to blush. It’s … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Navigating Through Life, The Garden, The Seasons, Time
Tagged joy, Moving Forward, soups and stews, wood smoke
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On Winning And Losing
Truth is best served by recognizing a viewpoint as only a viewpoint, and refraining from taking that extra step of regarding it as true to the exclusion of all other views. In other words, all views–even correct views–are best held … Continue reading
Posted in Friendships, Gratefulness, Memoir, Navigating Through Life, photography, The Garden
Tagged flowers, Judging, Losing, Moving Forward, Rejection, trust, Winning, Worthiness
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