THIS QUIET DOODLE JUST SEEMED RIGHT for this contemplative week. Thank you, Andre Jordan, as ever for your bits and bobs of wit and wisdom.
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FROM THE WEEKLY PODCAST
smarter fall (and spring) cleanup, with doug tallamy
WHEN I TALKED to Doug Tallamy in February around the publication date of his latest book, “Nature’s Best Hope,” I didn’t want to go on and on about the advice in it regarding smart fall cleanup, which is one of the ways I know I’ve dramatically shifted the way I manage my own garden compared to 10 or even five years ago. But we were looking ahead to spring then, not fall.
I’m grateful that Doug returned to the podcast in autumn to do just that. Want to plan your most ecologically minded garden cleanup ever, and understand the consequences of each potential action you can take—including next spring?
The subtitle of University of Delaware professor Doug Tallamy’s recent book, “Nature’s Best Hope,” is “A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard.” Meaning: The choices we make all year-round, including the very important one of how we clean up, can help counteract an overdeveloped, fragmented landscape that puts the food web to the test. You and I are nature’s best hope, and I’m glad Doug joined me again to help us learn to support it.
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Andre so sweetly and beautifully summarizes what we’ve been meditating on all week: Japan and,for me, just as much, Libya’s massacre. Thank you.
Lovely, indeed.
yes it seems this is very much a week to listen
Thank you, Andre, for your thoughtful doodles. It is interesting how so much of life is cyclical in nature, and your doodle points that out nicely. Today with the warmer weather, I plan to take time on my bench to listen.
we are all nature
Could anyone not be moved by what is happening in our world today? The bench as a metaphor for our world. Beautiful…
I agree with Andre… a perfect listening week.
I would love a poster of this drawing. Lovely.
Welcome to Stan, Jazmine, Dirty Girl, Vanessa. Glad that you added your voices to the conversation. I raked more yesterday and it was therapeutic; so grateful to the garden and to all of you here.
I can see our grass!
we do have grass!
our dog – so confused by grass still hunts down the last bits of snow to do ‘business’ on.
Andre I absolutely love the bench doodle. I have an amazing picture of a bench that looks out over the Napa Valley. A place I go to find a little peace and solitude from my corporate life. Your words fit perfectly.
Welcome, Cyndi. Your bench sounds like the perfect spot. Lucky you. Hope we see you soon again here, and thanks for saying hello.
Love the story…sweet.
Fantastic doodle and poem. Your website was just passed on to me by an admirer. I look forward to reading more.
Erica
Welcome, Erica. Andre is always there for me (for us!) with poignant (and sometimes naughty, in appropriate times) messages. We are here and look forward to your next visit.
I would love this doodle with it’s beautiful message made into a magnet :)
Thank you Andre !
Welcome, Lyn. Isn’t it a good one? Glad to see you here and hope to again very soon.
Could you tell me how to get a print of doodle by andre: time to be still??
Thanks
Jeni
ps.. I live in NE (local)
My all time favorite Andre doodle. Boy this one hit my heart.
Thanks so much Margaret,
Once again you and Andre have brightened a very discouraging day!
Thanks for the reminder—of peace. Hope you have peace despite the tirmoil in the world just now.
take care
L
Oh, I love this! I may have to post this somehow near my bench.
Love this.
Welcome, Candis. Andre is the best, isn’t he? Thanks for joining in, and see you soon again we hope.