In search of inspiration this spring I visited a few very special spots for wildflowers. Luck has been with me and pretty much everywhere I turned a botanical show was just popping off. For me the best medicine to feeling out of sorts has always been to go out into the world away from the busy town and take in what is growing. In an opinion piece by Oliver Sachs in the NYT (published 4/18/19 but written in 2015) Sachs confirms the feeling that many of us share. “All of us have had the experience of wandering through a lush garden or a timeless desert, walking by a river or an ocean, or climbing a mountain and finding ourselves simultaneously calmed and reinvigorated, engaged in mind, refreshed in body and …
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