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May, 2008

• Your Creative Garden: Pests Sent Thursday, May 15, 2008 Creative Zen Transitions creativity ~ transformation ~ peace Your Creative Garden: Pests Pests are usually tiny, but if they are allowed to take over, they can destroy your garden. In the organic garden, there are several ways to accomplish pest control. For chewing insects, like big worms, the easiest pest control may be simply picking them off each morning and disposing of them. For sucking insects like aphids, a soapy solution suffocates them, and even just […]
• Your Creative Garden: Weeds Sent Friday, May 9, 2008 Creative Zen Transitions creativity ~ transformation ~ peace Your Creative Garden: Weeds An important part of garden care is weeding. Weeds are continually popping up. If you spend a little time every day, you can keep them under control; if you ignore them, pretty soon they will have taken over your garden! The real problem with weeds is not that they are coexisting peacefully in your garden, but that they are stealing nutrients, crowding out your plants, and […]

March, 2008

• Your Creative Garden: Needs Sent Friday, March 21, 2008 Creative Zen Transitions creativity ~ transformation ~ peace Your Creative Garden: Needs Your garden needs fertilizer in order for the plants to be able to grow properly. Compost made from kitchen scraps is natural, healthy for your plants, and good for the ecosystem! To make compost, you take kitchen waste -- apple cores, vegetable peels, seeds and such -- and throw it in a pile to rot. You turn it occasionally for a few months, and let time, microorganisms, […]

February, 2008

• Your Creative Garden: Self-Care Sent Saturday, February 23, 2008 Creative Zen Transitions creativity ~ transformation ~ peace Your Creative Garden: Self-Care Water and fertilizer are both necessary for your garden. Water keeps your plants alive, and so is more essential, while fertilizer helps them really thrive by providing nutrients that the soil may be lacking. xml version='1.0' encoding='%SOUP-ENCODING%' In your creative garden, water corresponds to self-care, while fertilizer corresponds to what we call needs. […]
• Your Creative Garden: Time Again Sent Friday, February 1, 2008 Creative Zen Transitions creativity ~ transformation ~ peace Your Creative Garden: Time Again This week we're going to talk about that dedicated time we must set aside for our creative projects. Ultimately, time is a vessel which holds all our life activities. Our goal is to choose wisely, in order to fit in the things we value most. Finding time for your creative work starts off as a time management question (am I managing my time wisely?), and ends up as a […]

January, 2008

• Your Creative Garden: Time Sent Monday, January 28, 2008 Creative Zen Transitions creativity ~ transformation ~ peace Your Creative Garden: Time When creating a garden, you need time for planning, site selection, amending the soil, setting up irrigation, planting, weeding, and all sorts of other tasks! Sometimes you need to set aside a chunk of time, but for many tasks it can be a few minutes here and there. Creating is the same way. There are occasions when we need to set aside a large chunk of time -- forming your […]
• Your Creative Garden: Space Sent Thursday, January 17, 2008 Creative Zen Transitions creativity ~ transformation ~ peace Your Creative Garden: Space When creating a garden, it is important to realize that many factors influence your success, and that they're not all within your control! The key is to set things up to maximize results, while minimizing effort and problems. One of the first things to do when creating a garden is to select the space you're going to use. There are many factors to consider when choosing a […]
• Growing Your Creative Garden Sent Monday, January 7, 2008 Creative Zen Transitions creativity ~ transformation ~ peace Growing Your Creative Garden The new year has me thinking of how much working on our creative projects is like growing a garden. A garden isn't a one-shot thing, and neither is a creative project. In order to harvest, you have to work consistently in the garden, or on your creative project. Sometimes this is exciting; sometimes it is incredibly boring. Sometimes the weather changes unexpectedly. There […]
• January 1 Sent Tuesday, January 1, 2008 Creative Zen Transitions creativity ~ transformation ~ peace January 1 ... Magical day of new beginnings! Every year we feel the allure of the fresh start that this day brings. Whether we succeed or fail in our creative projects may not depend on how strict we can be with ourselves and our New Year's resolutions, but how forgiving. The truth is that the best of us will likely not fulfill a vow to create daily. Why? Because life is delightfully unpredictable and […]