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“Plant Flowers, Pull Weeds”
Encouraging us to become more aware,
to expand on positive “states of mind” in life…
kindness, compassion, gratitude, patience, courage, inspiration…
the remarkable potential in each and every one of us
for an abundance
of dozens and dozens of positive thoughts, feelings and actions…
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While we’re doing that….
to try to limit or decrease potentially negative “mind states”
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Creating a beautiful garden!
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It’s springtime!
A busy time for gardeners!
Time to refresh our flower gardens,
to enrich the soil, to sow new seeds, plant new seedlings…
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An imagined garden…
choosing, growing and nurturing those flowers we want
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Just like in our lives…
seeing our minds and hearts as a garden,
to become more aware and intentional,
to create, enrich and supplement the soil,
to plant our flowers…
and then to carefully and consistently water those flowers
growing in each of our own gardens,
to pull weeds that might crowd out the flowers,
plant flowers, pull weeds
the amazing potential and possibilities
in the gardens of our lives
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May we all make steady progress in growing our own gardens,
planting more flowers and pulling more weeds…
in this very, very precious garden of life
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Pocket Perspectives 
Lovely thoughts, Kathy!
I did a painting of a garden once . . . then added: “Love grows within. You are the garden. Nurture yourself.”
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thank you Nancy. And what lovely words you added to your garden painting…very special!
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Lovely thoughts and blessing, Kathy. Thank you. 🙂
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Thank you Robin…may there be many wonderful gardens in your days, weeks and months ahead! 🙂
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Wonderful post, Kathy!
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Thank you, Roberta…that was one of the first images on the blog..and I still enjoy that idea.
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Beautiful flowers and thoughts, Kathy.
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Thank you Georgette…. I love the idea of “the garden of life”
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Kathy, reading your posts always helps me to be more mindful and shift perspectives. I love the analogy of watering the garden of my mind, it makes more visual for me.
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I also like that idea of not only planting the flowers, but watering them frequently, too….I like visual too.
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This comment is by Kathy, Pocket Perspectives….Does anyone know whether WordPress changed some setting???… I’m showing up as “Anonymous”… I’m not being recognized… “shhhh….patience Kathy (PP)…plant flowers! 🙂 ….not weeds”
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Check to make sure you’re logged into your WP account.
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As far as I can tell, I am logged in. I tried signing out and then signing back in again, but I’m still not being recognized when trying to reply to comments in this post or to leave my own comments here… simply “anonymous.” Well, maybe by morning, it will have “righted” itself…????
Added a few days later: I was logged in on the dashboard, but not on this comments page. Thank you Nancy.
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Thank you for planting seeds of introspection, and watering with words of loving kindness. Peaceful Blessings.
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Oh, you’re very welcome. What a special way you “worded” that…thank you so much…. “seeds of introspection”… “watering with words of loving kindness”… special.
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tidy garden, tidy mind and everything to hand… Loved the simile… just as I love gardening, (but not the weeding as much..tho’ it has to be done… 🙂 ) xx
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Aren’t gardens a joy…especially when they’re blooming?… (and…when we aren’t weeding them… 😉 )
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Love your blog 🙂
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Thanks! Welcome to you….happy you found us here! 🙂
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😃😄
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