Little Sunshine

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Sometimes just a little sunshine is all we need.

When the fog and clouds are getting to be… too much…

That is exactly what happened to CJ in Tangier Gardens, he sought clarity. He needed a little sunshine.

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Scherenschnitt and Winter

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Winter tree model for paper-cutting, scherenschnitt

Ice: winter cold

CJ spent so much time on the Tropic of Cancer in Arabia that he desired the cold of winter; but as a youth in Tangier Gardens, he didn’t know that was in store for him.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

TOMORROW’S PROMISE TODAY

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A sunset, like the end of the year, carries a promise for a new dawn, a new day, a new year, the turning of a page.

From the comfort of your own home, turn the page–take a trip to Morocco.

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Garden nurturing an abandoned human? What would Frances Hodgson Burnett say?

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Magische… dreaming… white Christmas

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Tired of…

…politics and socio-cultural tripe?

Take a break at home!

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