A garden

 

    "A garden gives you a protected physical space which helps your sense of mental space and it gives you quiet, so you can hear your own thoughts. The more you immerse yourself in working with your hands, the more free you are internally to sort feelings out and work them through. These days, I turn to gardening as a way of calming and decompressing my mind. Somehow, the jangle of competing thoughts inside my head clears and settles as the weed bucket fills up. Ideas that have been lying dormant come to the surface and thoughts that are barely formed sometimes come together and unexpectedly take shape. At times like these, it feels as if alongside all the physical activity, I am also gardening my mind."

    Sue Stuart-Smith, The Well Gardened Mind.

(Sue is a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, and wife of Tom Stuart-Smith.)

Comments

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The garden has certainly been a godsend these days, Karen. Such lovely photos of yours on your other blog!