Mission Statement

Before I get into the content itself I want to say a few words about my mission with this website.

My goal is for Faithful Gardener to be a place of positive energy, reassurance, healing and (as the name I’ve chosen suggests) faith. The name Faithful Gardener is useful for me because it reminds me to have faith in myself and in what I am doing. It also reminds me to be patient because nothing springs forth fully formed overnight. I have raised plants for food and beauty in the past and hope to do so in the future, but this blog is not about plants, it’s about faithfully gardening the life you want to lead into being.

I hope that the content I share here will provide space and nurturing for everyone to unfold their true selves. I believe that if we can each create the love and belonging we crave in our own lives the world will change for the better.

Finally, the name of my blog comes from the book The Faithful Gardener: A wise tale about that which can never die by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés. This is a wonderful book, especially for children. I recommend all of this author’s work wholeheartedly.

And just to throw it in there, here are a few quotes that inspire me:

“The planet doesn’t need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.” - Dalai Lama

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.” - John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” - Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“Love liberates, it doesn’t bind.” - Maya Angelou

“Be wary of any influence in your environment which dismisses or judges your enthusiasm. Without it, we would become anesthetized to life itself. Anyone who demands this smallness of you is in danger themselves and may have contracted this insidious, deadening monotone. Enthusiasm is the vitality of spirit expressing itself through us and its grace in our voice should be welcomed and cherished. The word originates in the early 17th century, from the Greek enthousiasmos meaning ‘possessed by god’. Now, more than ever, the world needs your enlargement, your weirdness, your fiery crescendos of rebellion from boring.” - Toko-pa Turner, Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home

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