Comments on: September 22, 2009 http://www.ConstanceOre.com/2009/09/22/september-22-2009/ Reflections on Living at the End of Life - MDS and Leukemia Sat, 09 Oct 2010 13:56:10 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 By: dick gale http://www.ConstanceOre.com/2009/09/22/september-22-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-90070 dick gale Tue, 29 Sep 2009 21:09:42 +0000 http://www.connieore.com/?p=1346#comment-90070 Hi Connie I went on a garden tour of a most unusual hillside garden in a residential neighborhod in Laguna Beach on Sunday. The woman who planted and daily nurtured the garden for 50 years was outspoken, opinionated and brooked no nonsense. The docent related a bird story that Dick thought you might enjoy. The woman, Hortense Miller, held the opinion that ravens were a great deal more intelligent than crows. Although a vegetarian herself, she would purchase meat to feed the birds. She would suspend hunks of meat threaded on long pieces of string from a branch. Crows would attempt to get ahold of the meat by flying at it--presumably it would be very difficult to pin down in a beck. The ravens used a totally different approach. They landed on the branch from which the meat hung and pulled the string up until they could easily grab the meat chunks. Proof that the intelligence of ravens outshines crows. The garden sits on 2.5 acres. The house was completed in 1959 and is an open, airy indoor-outdoor design. The garden paths wind about the property. She built all the stairs herself and had her own watering system. She didn't believe in automatic sprinklers and toured the garden daily, watering where needed. The garden felt natural--more like a stroll through a woodsy hillside than a planned garden. Apparently she planted things at randon--no master plan. Anyway it was a lovely, breezy day that included a small chamber music group (harp, cello, violin) situated under an arbor. Lovely refreshments as well. Susan Gale Hi Connie
I went on a garden tour of a most unusual hillside garden in a residential neighborhod in Laguna Beach on Sunday. The woman who planted and daily nurtured the garden for 50 years was outspoken, opinionated and brooked no nonsense. The docent related a bird story that Dick thought you might enjoy. The woman, Hortense Miller, held the opinion that ravens were a great deal more intelligent than crows. Although a vegetarian herself, she would purchase meat to feed the birds. She would suspend hunks of meat threaded on long pieces of string from a branch. Crows would attempt to get ahold of the meat by flying at it–presumably it would be very difficult to pin down in a beck. The ravens used a totally different approach. They landed on the branch from which the meat hung and pulled the string up until they could easily grab the meat chunks. Proof that the intelligence of ravens outshines crows.

The garden sits on 2.5 acres. The house was completed in 1959 and is an open, airy indoor-outdoor design. The garden paths wind about the property. She built all the stairs herself and had her own watering system. She didn’t believe in automatic sprinklers and toured the garden daily, watering where needed. The garden felt natural–more like a stroll through a woodsy hillside than a planned garden. Apparently she planted things at randon–no master plan. Anyway it was a lovely, breezy day that included a small chamber music group (harp, cello, violin) situated under an arbor. Lovely refreshments as well.

Susan Gale

]]> By: Charlyne Berens http://www.ConstanceOre.com/2009/09/22/september-22-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-90068 Charlyne Berens Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:26:53 +0000 http://www.connieore.com/?p=1346#comment-90068 Psalm 23 has meant even more to me since our pastor preached a sermon on it a few years ago. He said the Hebrew form of the verb "follow" in that last verse -- "Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me" -- is a form that actually means "pursue." I love the notion that "goodness and mercy" are not just trailing along with us but are actually pursuing us and won't give up or let us get away. Thank God for his determination to shower us with goodness, mercy and grace. Charlyne Psalm 23 has meant even more to me since our pastor preached a sermon on it a few years ago. He said the Hebrew form of the verb “follow” in that last verse — “Surely, goodness and mercy shall follow me” — is a form that actually means “pursue.”

I love the notion that “goodness and mercy” are not just trailing along with us but are actually pursuing us and won’t give up or let us get away.

Thank God for his determination to shower us with goodness, mercy and grace.
Charlyne

]]> By: Elizabeth Wake http://www.ConstanceOre.com/2009/09/22/september-22-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-90065 Elizabeth Wake Sat, 26 Sep 2009 00:44:14 +0000 http://www.connieore.com/?p=1346#comment-90065 Connie, You are a marvelous writer. It is poetry. Elizabeth Connie,
You are a marvelous writer. It is poetry.
Elizabeth

]]> By: Rhoda Houge http://www.ConstanceOre.com/2009/09/22/september-22-2009/comment-page-1/#comment-90064 Rhoda Houge Fri, 25 Sep 2009 04:54:57 +0000 http://www.connieore.com/?p=1346#comment-90064 Thanks again for sharing so descriptively. I feel like I know your place by now. You make me stop to think about my own life, something most of us don't usually do - just kind of keep moving on, caught up in the "stuff." God be with both you and Charles. Thanks again for sharing so descriptively. I feel like I know your place by now. You make me stop to think about my own life, something most of us don’t usually do – just kind of keep moving on, caught up in the “stuff.” God be with both you and Charles.

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