Tuesday, June 3, 2008
Welcome to our "indoor garden" family
and friends of our "indoor garden" family: Tomiko & Jeff...Henry Ketikian
Sunday, October 28, 2007
Welcome to a New Dawn!
Today is going to be a learning experience.
~Your Daily Fortune
A new thought came to mind...
I am going to create an indoor garden!
How do I begin?
A friend shares some 'Gardening Tips':
1. Choose the plot.
The plot I picked is my 'home' & my 'workplace' because I found out that through time, 'weeds' or the unwanted elements (the pollutants & toxins - physical, mental, spiritual) in the home are slowly growing unnoticed. There is need to breathe fresh again. The inspiration comes from...
"Charity begins at home."
2. Prepare the soil.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
~Benjamin Franklin
...preparing always the soil for unexpected good to sprout in.
~J.R.R. Tolkien
3. Decide when to plant.
After having had a personal gratifying experience shared with my family, we decided to plant a good seed today, together...
4. Selecting the proper fertilizer.
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes. ~ Rick Pitino
Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over. ~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Prejudices, it is well known, are the most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never even loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. ~ Charlotte Bronte
The brain is a commodity used to fertilize ideas. ~Elbert Hubbard
One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die. ~Evelyn Waugh
Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. ~ Rebecca West
The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer. ~Anonymous Gardener
5. Mulch the plants.
A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely. ~Pat Brown
6. Organic or chemical gardening.
Let every individual and institution now think and act as a responsible trustee of Earth, seeking choices in ecology, economics and ethics that will provide a sustainable future, eliminate pollution, poverty and violence, awaken the wonder of life and foster peaceful progress in the human adventure. ~John McConnell, founder of International Earth Day
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground. ~Frank Lloyd Wright
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. ~Seneca
Men are free when they are in a living homeland, not when they are straying and breaking away. Men are free when they are obeying some deep, inward voice of religious belief. Obeying from within. Men are free when they belong to a living, organic, be. ~D.H. Lawrence
7. Crop rotation.
I've learned over the years that it doesn't matter where you pitch in the rotation. For me, preparation is everything. ~Cory Lidle
Your descendants shall gather your fruits. ~Virgil
We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone. ~Albert Schweitzer
Imagine!
You are welcomed by the warmth of the colors of the flowers all over you...
Imagine...walking on a fresh floral scented carpet,
as you walk in your living room to relax, to cool down after a hard day's work...
...you close your eyes, and hear the calming sound of the waterfalls.
Just when you are about to enter your dreamlike state,
you hear the crying sound of your baby...
and you enter his immaculate room.
All of a sudden, you experience
the "organic thrill" in being enveloped in a "forest or mountain gorge in the twilight"...
You kissed him and like a spell, put him to sleep
& you now are ready to have one yourself.
Imagine...tiptoeing to the haven of your room.
In an instant,
you feel like you are whisked off to a holiday break in a faraway exotic island resort...
soaking yourself in the salt water with the gentle waves rocking you to sleep.
Once in deep sleep, you imagine enjoying the spa in your own backyard...
Meditating on the wonders of your environment -
while breathing in & breathing out...you ask yourself:
Am I breathing clean air?
Yes, you feel secured in the knowlege that
within the confines of your internal environment such as
your home in general...
your kitchen...
your home office...
your dining room...
your family room...
your shop in downtown...
your favorite restaurant...
your child's school...
your office...
your office reception area...
your favorite mall...
your grandma's assisted living facility...
your hospital...
you experience the benefits of living in a clean, healthy environment
like being enclosed in
a green house...
living in the midst of nature...
having the tranquil comfort of its safety...
we all have the opportunity of living and breathing free in this modern world!
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. ~Charles Dickens
To know more personally
how to live & breathe free,
enjoying nature fresh air in your indoor environment,
call or email:
Tristan Duke Bael
(619) 934-8479
expandedreality@gmail.com
Be prepared to be amazed!