This is beautiful! And in the same vein as Austin Kleon, I’m NOT exactly “stealing”this post, but I’d like to reblog it, with full credit, of course! Thank you so much Author: westrow of ‘Walking with Mrs Dalloway’ for reminding me to find the equivalent in my own life of “planting iris.” xo Juli
I liked this post from Austin Kleon so much I’m stealing it. Hopefully like an artist, and not like a scoundrel. Nowadays, my equivalent of planting iris might even be to… plant iris. I love their wonderfully deep colour.
Whilst definitely not a gardener, as I have got older I have found myself paying much more attention to what is around me. Finding myself better able to appreciate what I have, what is there in front of me, rather than always longing to be somewhere else, for something else. And since I am now living on a farm, that means taking an interest in the countryside around me, from the muddy ditch and frost in winter to the hedgerow of wild flowers and beyond. Whether city walking or country walking, both give you the time to pay attention, to notice.
The quote is from Downhill All The Way, Leonard Woolf’s…
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JULI HOFFMAN 
This is just wonderful. I am glad you ‘borrowed’ this and shared it with us. It is exactly how I feel about gardening and various personalities who dominate the news these days!
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Me too!! It’s a reminder that this chaos will eventually pass. (The sooner, the better!) And that we can CHOOSE to bring beauty into the world.
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amen to that!!!
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