A GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK: A PERSONAL JOURNAL
March 14, 2010
Article Title: A Gardener’s Notebook: A Personal Journal
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Category/Key Words (Tags): Gardens, gardening, gardening quotes, Hazel Margaret Lock, obituary, personal thoughts, words of upliftment and inspiration
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A GARDENER’S NOTEBOOK: A PERSONAL JOURNAL
Category/Key words (Tags): Gardens, gardening, gardening quotes, Hazel Margaret Lock, obituary, personal thoughts, words of upliftment and inspiration
Sharing some musings by our dearest mom, Hazel Margaret Lock (07/01/1922 – 02/06/06) * written over the years.
here lies a true humanitarian
To dearest mom
“For those who believe love rules,
stand up and let it shine.”
“A garden is a thing of beauty and a job forever.”
- anon
“A weed is no more than a flower in disguise,
Which is seen at through at once, if love gives a man eyes.”
- Russell L Lowell, American poet (1819-1891)
“Show me your garden and I’ll tell you who you are.”
- Alfred Austin, English writer (1857-1929)
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“Nature does not complete things. She is chaotic.
Man must finish, and he does so by making a garden and building a wall.”
- Robert Frost, American poet (1875-1963)
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12-03-1993
My garden seems to become more important to me as the years go by and never fails tobreathe fresh life into me and lift my faded spirits. I never tire of seeing the garden and changing face at different times of the day.
Found these words on Glenda’s card so lovely just had to write them down.
“Where do we find peace?
Peace is in the rosy softness of a new dawn breaking.
It’s the sound of the wind across the mountain peak,
the quiet and mystical beauty of a snow-flake drifting silence downward to a land blanketed in white.
Peace is the elusive Kingdom of the Soul.”
I really think that of all the arts, gardening is the most creative; because it is a living, breathing one and is an even difficult challenge.
I have such interesting different children with so many facets. Just like my garden, with so many shades and perfumes, so are my children. They are like my garden, ever-changing; but also like the sun, remaining constant.
Different, but equally beautiful. (This applies to all non-perfect species, no matter whether from the animal kingdom or the human one.)
We must learn to live together like brothers, or perish together like fools.
23/03/93
Dearest Owen died today. Feel so sad as I sit having tea at the litle table he made for me. He always admired my garden so much and said it was like an English garden. I will miss him sitting in the garden enjoying his tea and biscuits and I’m sure my garden will miss him.
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01/01/1994
Wonder what the new year will bring – aren’t we approaching it with trepidation? However, the greatest source of comfort is in my garden, which is looking so colourful and pretty – the baby roses are blooming, the digitalis?? tall and stately and the mandevilla?? creeper goes on blooming forever and releasing its perfume through my bedrom windows.
02/01/1994
My garden seems to bring a special new year greeting this year particularly – maybe it’s the vibrant colours reminiscent of the shades of Africa or the unity of the flowers bedded together, no matter how different the species, that gives one a sense of hope that peace among different races for the future. So much peace is here today in my garden that apprehension re the future is part of the past
With the elections virually upon us thought this quotation from Alan Paton’s book, ‘Instrument of Thy Peace’ very significant:
“You must hope for the best and prepare for the worst.”
10th May 1994
Today, the inaugeration of the first black President in our first democratic government: what a day of jubilance, tears, sadness, happiness, nostalgia, optimism for the future and above all peace. Today embraced every human emotion, by which people of all colours and creeds were joined together. It was like a garden suddenly opening every bud to flower and every single variety, flowering and giving off their many perfumes to each other to fill the whole garden with the most amazing colours, vibrant and retiring, fused close together to form a picture of beauty never ever seen before. This was a sight and a perfume, which surely is the 20th century miracle.”
- Hazel Margaret Lock
10th of May in the year 1994.
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19/11/99
Thank you, dearest Charmaine for your enrichment to my life.
“But a little garden, the littler the better, is your richest chance for success and happiness.”
- Reginald Farrer, English writer and botanist (1880-1920)
Had to write down these beautiful words printed in the exquisite calender painted by mouth and foot artists:
“The artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature with his picture.”
Oh Lord, who lends me a life, please lend me a heart of thankfulness for living, just as an artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his picture.
Write on your heart that every day is the best day of the year.
A man can’t change the road he has covered – it’s the path up ahead that counts.
From St Francis of Assisi:
“Lord
Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console
not so much to be understood as to understand…
and not so much to be loved as to love.”
Shared by glenda and craig
“Where do we find peace?
Peace is in the rosy softness of a new dawn breaking.
It’s the sound of the wind across the mountain peak,
the quiet and mystical beauty of a snow-flake drifting silence downward to a land blanketed in white.
Peace is the elusive Kingdom of the Soul.”
“Grass is the forgiveness of nature.”
- Thomas Carlyle, English historian (1795 – 1881)
“Gardens cannot be considered in detachment from the people who made them.”
- Derek Clifford, American historian (b.1915)
“The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.”
- Abraham Lincoln, great former American President
Thank you, dearest mom for the enrichment you have given to our lives.
Your generous “zany hazey” spirit of love that is the colourful garden of your soul lives on … your beautiful bright ray of sunshine continues to shine on and caress the world… forever
“There with her baskets and clippers, and wearing her funny boyish shoes and with the sunborn sweat soaking her eyes, she is a part of the sky and earth, possibly a not too significant part, but a part.”
- Truman Capote, American writer (1924-1984)
THESE PERSONAL THOUGHTS MAY BE FREELY PUBLISHED
“A man can’t change the road he has covered – it’s the path up ahead that counts.”
- Hazel Margaret Lock
“A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.”
- Chinese proverb
