Gardening as a healing tool

Gardening is an art, that is healing... contemplative... meditative... transformative...

You can grow some food and connect with the land upon which you live...

It grounds the mind, exercises the body, and feeds the soul with wonder ...

Babies arriving, and Dear Ones leaving over the past little while, are reminders of the fragility and transience of life...

Gardening provides a container, a context, in which gardeners can accept these things, whilst not needing to understand such mystery...
 

Day 22 or 20 - mandala a day - "Shine"

NOTE TO SELF...!

This was drawn freehand, & I was dismayed, 1/2 way through the sketching out, but the spaces I had created were there for a reason... the hardest part was working out what was meant to go there...

So pleased I found out!

I think the symbolism is self explanatory, but if you need to know, there is a comments box where you're welcome to ask...

Day 21 - mandala a day - "Dreaming the World" - Frithgarth/Eden

Here sleeps an angelic child... Mabon... child world soul.. a childlike facet of a human collective consciousness...

She's also me, dreaming of a better world... an ideal situation... where all is innocence and unblemished...

In process of drawing, the sheet began as a bridge, and wallpaper as pendulous wisteria blossom... Monet's garden in France... where I've never been... but have imagined as a perfect garden for most of my life...
the iris remained... as did floating marigolds...

And the hearts? Once the circle is drawn around the child in 3 dimensional form, they meet, and become whole...

If life is a garden, I hope I can dream up a kinder, sweeter, softer place...