Author Archive for lorigloyd

As I said in the previous post, my parsley bit the dust, literally.
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Lori Gloyd (c) 2007

The metaphor of gardening has often been used to describe the spiritual experience of women.
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Image and text: Lori Gloyd (c) 2007

On Saturday morning I felt compelled to go to my local botanical garden. I say compelled because I had so many chores to do Saturday that I really didn’t have the time. Yet, I went.
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Lori Gloyd (c) 2007

The time I dread has now come. It’s time to thin my seedlings. This is where I have usually fallen down in past attempts at growing plants. I find it very hard to take young healthy seedlings, green and seemingly innocent, and yank them up by the roots. It seems so [...]

Tree of Life Mandala

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Lori Gloyd (c) 2007

Many, many years ago, more than I am willing to say, there was a weed-choked, trash-strewn plot of land on the northwest corner of my high school campus.
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Lori Gloyd (c) 2007

Parsley Patch Update

An update on the apartment garden project:
As I reported a few days ago, my lemon balm seeds have germinated. Since then I’ve been wondering when the parsley would follow suit. At first I thought I had ruined the process because I did not notice the instruction on the package that said to [...]

Garden Meditation

“Garden Meditation”
Lori Gloyd (c) 2007
Digital Construction

Mud

I didn’t have a particularly good afternoon. I will not elaborate on the details but let it suffice that most of the afternoon I felt very low. If my mood were palpable, it would be like mud—dark, sticky and awful.
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Lori Gloyd (c) 2007

I’ve been pondering gardens quite a bit during the last week. There is something deep within me that yearns to stick my hands into dark, moist earth and smell its fragrance. There is something about being around plants that energizes me. There is something hope-filled about seeing the first sprouts of germinated seeds……
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