A Mystic Garden: Working with Soil, Attending to Soul

by Gunilla Norris

Overview

A Mystic Garden is a lyrical primer on the spirituality of gardening, affirming the garden as a soulful space where people can take root and experience the changing seasons and the enduring cycle of renewal. Gunilla Norris shares with us a year’s time in her New England garden, and shows that all she observes there illuminates the sacredness of the everyday.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933346618
Publisher:	BlueBridge
Publication date:	01/02/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	112
File size:	363 KB

About the Author

Gunilla Norris is a writer, meditation teacher, and psychotherapist in private practice. Her books include "Inviting Silence "and" Simple Ways." She lives in Mystic, Connecticut.

Table of Contents

	Introduction	3
	Winter	7
	Spring	23
	Summer	51
	Autumn	79
	Four Seasons	97

Editorial Reviews

Norris's latest work is an ably written counterpart to her earlier Being Home: Discovering the Spiritual in the Everyday. While it does not on the whole have the profundity of Being Home or especially her finest book, Becoming Bread: Embracing the Spiritual in the Everyday, it is a worthy addition to her writing and a pleasure for those of her readers whose need for an everyday spirituality, like her own, extends to the garden. For most collections. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Library Journal

"A pleasure for . . . readers whose need for an everyday spirituality . . . extends to the garden."  —Library Journal

"Norris cycles through the four seasons of a gardener's heart. Norris . . . writes lyrically about dormancy and transformation, soil and nourishment, roots and blossoms . . . Norris's short reflections are balanced by quiet and meditative poetry on facing pages, inviting deeper rumination about how God can be discovered in the act of gardening."  —Publishers Weekly

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