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Jana Remy

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    • Disability
    • Making History
    • Digital Humanities
      • dayofDH
    • Canoeing
    • Creative Nonfiction & Essays
    • Feminism
    • Bibliographies
      • Pacific Worlds Bibliography
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deep thoughtsgarden

questions…

written by Jana June 1, 2007

“Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers which could not be given to you now because you would not be able to live them–and the point is to live everything. Live the questions now, perhaps then someday far in the future you will gradually without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke

This week has been a flurry of busy-ness. Thank you to all for your kind comments and personal email messages. I am in the midst of many projects right now, including plans for summer research, reorganizing my home to accommodate for various recent acquisitions (i.e. we have some comfy upholstered furniture now that warranted a wholesale re-thinking of our LR space), and I’ve been reading and acting on the advice of Plenty–even to the point of nearing a full-time commitment to eat locally (anyone know of a local wheat source? That’s what’s holding me back right now).

And of course, there’s the garden…this time of year the garden demands so much! I got my cucumbers and more flowers in this week (yay for free flowers from Aunt Suz’s yard!). I discovered from a garden neighbor that many are suffering from a complete lack of pollinating bees–she’s only seen one (ONE!) bee in her plot at all this month. My garden: bees EVERYWHERE. They love love love the lavender and the sage flowers, especially. I am so glad that I made flowers a priority as they will bless my veggies, too. :)

Well, ’nuff of my rambling for now. The garden is beckoning…(and, yes, I will be taking more plant photos for you this weekend–I especially can’t wait to show you the kiddoes’ purple bean teepee. The vines are nearly 4 feet high and it’s such a magical space…)

PS: What questions are you living (a la Rilke)? My question for life right now: “What is it like to live without fear?”

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DD June 2, 2007 - 12:36 am

I’d be interested in seeing a picture of your entire garden plot and how your city sets up the arrangement(or if it is not done by the city, then who sponsors it?) I am in the midwest and am just curious as to what the setup would look like. We have a very pathetic looking garden plot next to our fire station, but at this point only one of the plots is apparently being used. So sad.

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jana June 2, 2007 - 2:03 am

Our garden isn’t sponsored by the city–it’s a gift of a small parcel of unused land at a neighboring school.

As for the layout, it’s pretty random as it was set up by a bunch of hippies several decades ago. We’ve since re-fenced several of the plots and tried to bring a bit more order to the chaos.

One of these days I’ll post a pic of the whole plot–but it’s more than 400 sq feet and in an odd L-shape so it’s not easily photographed. :)

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Sarah Lott June 7, 2007 - 7:51 pm

Jana,
I’ve been musing this for days. Thanks SO much for the constant supply of food for thought.

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Hi there friend, and welcome to my blog. I started writing on the internet two decades ago. Since then I've started and finished a PhD program, left the Mormon church and became a Quaker, got divorced, remarried, found full-time work in academia, took up rock climbing and outrigger canoeing, and traveled across the globe (China! Belgium! Italy! Chicago! Montana! Portland! Gettysburg! and oh-so-many points in-between). This blog is eclectic and random--it has poetry and cooking and books. And cats. And flowers. And the ocean (my ocean). But in that sense it's a good reflection of me and my wide-ranging, far-reaching, magpie curiosity.

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