We had a great week during our spring open garden at the end of April, 2025! It was a great way to celebrate Ohio Native Plant Month. We had a total of 90 visitors. We so enjoy being with guests! We learn and get ideas from the experiences folk bring. Questions help us reflect and…
Tag: Gratitude
Remembering for a Hopeful 2025
It’s often tempting to breathe a sigh of relief at the end of the year and eagerly turn to a new year. Yet being hopeful about the future involves, at least in part, remembering. When we remember our experiences of the good, the beautiful, the tenacity of resilience, and the empowerment of relationships, then we…
Gathering Thankfulness
The Thanksgiving holiday is a time for gratitude, but it is also all about gathering. We gather the fruits of the growing season. In this we express gratitude for food, the labor of production involved, and the earth from which it springs. We gather memories of times from the year that are full of grace…
Happy New Year (belatedly) from Catchfly Commons!
It is a bit late to post a reflection on 2023, but here goes! Last year was a very good one for us! Here are some highlights… Public Engagement In March, the garden was featured in Ohio Magazine (“How to Plant a Native Ohio Garden”). Terri did a couple of presentations. One was “Gardening for…
Thankfully, Still in Eden
In her last post “Stop What You’re Doing”, Terri referenced Margaret Renkl’s book, The Comfort of Crows. Renkl ends the book’s introduction with these words: We were never cast out of Eden. We merely turned from it and shut our eyes. To return and be welcomed, cleansed, and redeemed, we are only obliged to look….
Stop What You’re Doing
In her newest book, The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year, Margaret Renkl begins the prologue with “Wherever you are, stop what you’re doing.” This is a call to attention in words to savor. I have been awed in the last few weeks by the colors of fall this year. The leaves of so many…
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