"In its purest, most unadulterated form, play is the expression of who we are when we can let go of who we are trying to be."
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~Fran Sorin, Author of Digging Deep
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I don't have a garden. I don't even have a house. I live on the third floor of an apartment building and my balcony is bare of even the tinest flower. Why then, did I buy a a book about gardening?
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Digging Deep, Unearthing Your Creative Roots Through Gardening (2004 Warner Books) is much more than a book on how to garden. It is a book on the creative process.
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Chapter headings include: Imagining-The Sparks of Creativity, Envisioning-Giving Shape to Your Dreams, Planning-Laying Down the Bones, and so on.
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You can easily see that the stages of planning a garden are much the same as writing a book or knitting a sweater. It all depends dreaming, planning, excecuting, fine-tuning and enjoying the process.
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I plan to have a house and a garden someday, and I know that I will use this book for that purpose in the future. In the meantime, it is a reminder of the creative process and the creative spirit.
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It is available in paperback from Amazon.com but I found my copy at my local bookstore.
4 comments:
Thank you for that quote. Just copied and pasted it on my desktop.
Isn't it just great! I loved it from the moment I read it.
Thank you! That sounds like a book I'll love. :)
It's a wonderful book, Samantha. I'm sure you'd enjoy it.
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