Growing Season Life Lessons from the Garden

by Bernstein, Arlene

• ISBN13: 9781885171832
• ISBN10: 1885171838
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Council Oak Books

Summary

... to nourish the hungry soul. Growing Season finds answers to the deepest needs of the questing heart in that place where humans and nature join in joyful collaboration -- the garden. Book jacket.

Author Biography

Arlene Bernstein is a psychotherapist, photographer, and artist. Since the sale of Mount Veeder Winery after twenty years on the land that healed her, she divided her time between traveling the world with her husband Michael and practicing psychotherapy and facilitating women’s retreats based on the principles discovered in her garden. As an artist, she is inspired in her photographs and paintings to express the beauty and joy derived from her travels and her connection with all that grows. Her current land began as a blank canvas and is now filled with abundant nourishment and beauty from the vegetables, flowers, and olive trees that have made it a healing place for everyone who visits.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Seeds	1	(16)
Fertile Ground	17	(1)
WINTER	18	(46)
Foraging
Weeding
Grounding
Pruning
Creating Space
Journeying Alone
SPRING	64	(22)
Waking Up
Sprouting
Cultivating
Planting
Letting Go of Expectations
Trusting
Expanding
Being Constructive
SUMMER	86	(22)
Reassessing Obstacles
Exploring
Observing
Opening
Dreaming
Forgiving
AUTUMN	108	(25)
Harvesting
Sharing
Letting Go, Again
Opening, Again
Loving
Pruning, Again
Ripening and Harvest	133	(37)
December 2003	170	(9)
Acknowledgments	179