Category Archives: accessibility

Landscape Libretto

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Promises not kept.

Every year in the Christmas season, I refresh with Nutcracker Suite—the more traditional librettos of Tchaikovsky’s great work. It takes me on a ride, a light and joyful ride.

That ride on the dancing, story and music is special. Music can by itself take us on a ride. And so can the landscape. 

The greatest national parks in the US and around the world can take us on a ride. I’ll leave the definition of ’taking a ride’ to the readers. Clue: it has nothing to do with mechanical vehicles.

I’ve always felt that the landscape and garden work of landscape architects should be able to take the user on a ride. Like music, like dance, like poetry. Romantic poets, centuries ago, took that ride in nature. Why can’t the work of today’s landscape architects offer that ride to users? Am I dreaming?

Dreams by the author of Tangier Gardens, buy the book @ Smashwords: https://bit.ly/3SIAfma

2024

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Had your fill of 2023??

Brighten up. Re-charge!

Find the most efficient, accessible and best way to re-charge in 2024.

That is what CJ discovered in my book Tangier Gardens. The ebook is on sale, 75% off!! 

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2023 IS RUNNING OUT

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Just for a moment… while you still have time… where does your knowledge come from?

Put aside your scientific understanding about the formation of clouds and fog… and consider this image.

Explore. The image is no clearer than your understanding of what you will find hiking into this valley.  This was one of the Alpine experiences of Byron, Goethe, Tolkien and Franz Hartmann. 

Who is Franz Hartmann? And why does it matter? He wrote “The Foundation of Christian Mysticism”.

Occult is an interesting throw-away domain. It is like a trash can in the science and philosophy labs where everything, that doesn’t quite fit the ‘accepted’ science or philosophy, is dumped.

Franz Hartmann wrote biographies of Jakob Böhme and Paracelsus. He drew links between the past and present.

He was of the day (b.1838, d.1912) when doctors were theologians because in medicine, doctors encounter the unexplainable. And theologians deal all the time with those things unexplainable. So we end up with a theosophical trash can of unexplainables. And those things, the unexplainables, become the reason why we have faith.

As 2024 begins, do not forget to question your sources of knowledge.

As did CJ in Tangier Gardens, on sale, 75% off, til 2023 year’s end. Buy it @ Smashwords: https://bit.ly/3SIAfma

THE ESSENCE OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE

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Landscape Architecture makes the benefits of nature’s prescription accessible to all, regardless of belief, politics, sociology, economics, sensual deprivation, age or gender. Take a walk with me in this snowy forest path image, or in Tangier Gardens where a student, CJ, first realizes the essence of landscape architecture.

In Between?

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Are you in between? That’s your affair–not mine.

Pumpkin, Butterscotch and Caramel Sno-Cone

The first snow fell and autumn color had not finished–in between fall and winter.

And my friend CJ has always been in between–in between cultures. See for yourself: Tangier Gardens at https://amzn.to/3HLrtyv

Autumn Unvarnished

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Autumn IRL

Science has lost its magic since the covid. Academe has lost its magic since the wokeism. I fall  back into the era of Christianity and alchemy where nature and its connection to human emotion is magic, a gift from God… but life ain’t just a bowl of cherries.

Take me where it is real.

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