the shade for the rest of the year, feeding it with dilute rose food. Then cover it over the winter, and plant it early next spring. Sounds like a plan. There is another one on the fenceline that has had a lot of die back - will probably do the same thing with it.
Sophie has wonderful roses and is something of an expert. She says this is an original not hybrid rose and that probably it is both old and something has been eating the roots. She suggests that I remove everything dead, pot it in good soil mixed with potting soil and perlite, and keep it in >>>>
I was raised Catholic. Good and bad came with that - the church is after all a human institution. But I have a spiritual center. I love the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer - one of my favorites is this very short prayer for the evening. This song is an expansion of that idea. I believe that >>>>
I call this image "Hope". I found this rosebush on my property in Virginia. It was three feet high and mostly had died off. But there was growth down close to ground level, and it had a beautiful rose. It was just waiting for someone like me to come along and try to rescue it. I'm going >>>>
done, we will be warmly received in another place. I fully respect people who are atheist or agnostic, or have different religious convictions. I do not however accept judgment on mine. If religion triggers you move on. I will also not play the old tired game of debating theodicy. That line of >>
to transplant it away from the fenceline and where it can get more sun, and tend to it. I hope it will thrive again. It's a lovely and fragrant rose with large blooms. It's been waiting here and saying "I'm here, I'm still alive". I know that feeling. I'll take care of you little one.
argument is old and tired and bespeaks a great lack of understanding of life. Enjoy this meditation in song if you will and if not pass on by. No religious debates please.
I can't tell you how much good it does for my heart and for my estimation of those who follow me to see over 100 people like this post. 😊 Caring for people, the world and nature is in my view the purpose for our existence. My best Jewish friend calls it "Tikkun Olam".
there is a place with "God" for everyone regardless of one's religion, or non-religion, regardless of their gender identify or sexual orientation, regardless of their relationship structures. I believe that it is all about being good to one another and to the world and that when this work is >>>>
I am bisexual, polyamorous, I model nude, I make hard rock and roll and metal music, I am neurodivergent and so often not a "nice" person. But I am religious. So sue me. Religion and spirituality do not belong to the moralizers out there, they are for everyone who feels the desire for them. >>>>
