People are turning to their gardens not to consume but to actively create, not to escape from reality but to observe it closely. In doing this they experience the connectedness of creation and the profoundest sources of being. That the world we live in and the activity of making it are one seamless whole is something that we may occasionally glimpse. In the garden, we know.
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Right now I can't sleep because I feel that if it's actually him and they hadn't caught him, I would have been in the number, I would have been one of the ones he killed.Carol Williams
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