Comments on: high on vines: intoxicating garden climbers http://awaytogarden.com/high-on-vines-intoxicating-garden-climbers Organic gardening inspiration from Margaret Roach Sun, 12 Feb 2012 02:28:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Margaret http://awaytogarden.com/high-on-vines-intoxicating-garden-climbers/comment-page-1#comment-343418 Margaret Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:07:16 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=5447#comment-343418 Thank you for the kind words, Mirth, and no hard intended toward Jack (or insensitivity to others who have fallen to that hideous drug). He is, indeed, more like a wine-drinker than a crack fiend; I stand corrected! See you soon again, I hope. I will tell Jack you are looking out for him. Thank you for the kind words, Mirth, and no hard intended toward Jack (or insensitivity to others who have fallen to that hideous drug). He is, indeed, more like a wine-drinker than a crack fiend; I stand corrected! See you soon again, I hope. I will tell Jack you are looking out for him.

]]> By: Mirth Brenan http://awaytogarden.com/high-on-vines-intoxicating-garden-climbers/comment-page-1#comment-343260 Mirth Brenan Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:58:03 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=5447#comment-343260 To Margaret Roach, courageous insightful woman of earth, sky, soil and fellow companions on four & two feet: I admired your work with MS, and A Way to Garden. Thank you for your explosion of creative meaning with new projects. I've read your memoir twice, enjoying every page. Your websites are enthralling, inspiring, meaningful, beauty in content and visual. Your tales of Jack are delightful--will you be writing something from his point of view in future? Perhaps Jack's autobiogaphy, inspired by Peter Mayles publication of his dog's perspective? I will be awaiting his voice in this story! But I was enormously GRIEVED reading your Vines slideshow with the comment of Kiwi being Jack's "crack." NOT OK!! We all know what that hard pscyho crack does to individuals, the crimes to others, the scourge to our society. That is HARDLY the role Jack plays in this life--indeed it is an enormous insult to him. Please replace that term "crack" with something else, eg. his "vintage Merlot" or "Organic Catnip" or "Sublime Meditation," or other fabulous parallel expressive more appropriate to Jack's enjoyment of the Kiwi, and his hugely important role as your muse, companion, and the spirit guide who ultimately craked open a brittle binding vine with the laser of laughter. Respectfully, Mirth Brenan Anthropologist, Austin, TX To Margaret Roach, courageous insightful woman of earth, sky, soil and fellow companions on four & two feet:

I admired your work with MS, and A Way to Garden. Thank you for your explosion of creative meaning with new projects. I’ve read your memoir twice, enjoying every page. Your websites are enthralling, inspiring, meaningful, beauty in content and visual.

Your tales of Jack are delightful–will you be writing something from his point of view in future? Perhaps Jack’s autobiogaphy, inspired by Peter Mayles publication of his dog’s perspective? I will be awaiting his voice in this story!

But I was enormously GRIEVED reading your Vines slideshow with the comment of Kiwi being Jack’s “crack.” NOT OK!! We all know what that hard pscyho crack does to individuals, the crimes to others, the scourge to our society. That is HARDLY the role Jack plays in this life–indeed it is an enormous insult to him. Please replace that term “crack” with something else, eg. his “vintage Merlot” or “Organic Catnip” or “Sublime Meditation,” or other fabulous parallel expressive more appropriate to Jack’s enjoyment of the Kiwi, and his hugely important role as your muse, companion, and the spirit guide who ultimately craked open a brittle binding vine with the laser of laughter.

Respectfully,
Mirth Brenan
Anthropologist, Austin, TX

]]> By: Margaret http://awaytogarden.com/high-on-vines-intoxicating-garden-climbers/comment-page-1#comment-9990 Margaret Thu, 02 Jul 2009 15:05:06 +0000 http://awaytogarden.com/?p=5447#comment-9990 Welcome, TexasDeb. I am so sorry for the woes of my many Texas gardening friends, and all residents in the drought-stricken areas of the country. Too much rain is nasty in other ways, but relentless drought as so much of the nation has suffered is worse. I should stop complaining (but gardeners always have some pest or kind of weather to moan about, right?). See you soon again. Welcome also to Barb. Sounds like I should name you my new director of marketing. :) Thanks for the pass-along referrals, and for your kind words. Yes, we are having an odd season but so is everyone in one way or another, I guess, and I also guess that lots of rain is better than none (within reason). See you soon, I hope. Welcome, TexasDeb. I am so sorry for the woes of my many Texas gardening friends, and all residents in the drought-stricken areas of the country. Too much rain is nasty in other ways, but relentless drought as so much of the nation has suffered is worse. I should stop complaining (but gardeners always have some pest or kind of weather to moan about, right?). See you soon again.

Welcome also to Barb. Sounds like I should name you my new director of marketing. :) Thanks for the pass-along referrals, and for your kind words. Yes, we are having an odd season but so is everyone in one way or another, I guess, and I also guess that lots of rain is better than none (within reason). See you soon, I hope.

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