1. In Tokyo, the “experience designers” at teamLab have created a beautiful, kinetic hanging garden made with a form of bonsai called Kokedama. Tied with string and bound with moss, the plants are able to grow mid-air, roots burrowing into little contained bundles of dirt. And because art and science are just natural bedfellows: This floating field is also mechanized to move with your body, parting the way for views to walk amongst the blossoms unhindered. What a lovely, happy thing to create. It reminds me of another untranslatable word I’ve been digging: Shinrin-yoku. Translated literally it means forest-bathing, but it’s often used to refer to a short, rejuvenating walk in the woods. Nice, right?
2. One of my all-time favorite poems is “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas. Just go read it to see why. This is one of those poems where all the parts are the best part, but here is a sample:
Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes, And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns And once below a time I lordly had the trees and leaves Trail with daisies and barley Down the rivers of the windfall light.
Reblogged this on Annika Perry's Novel Writing Blog and commented:
This magical garden on Katy Kelleher’s blog caught my eye and I wanted to share with you on what is a most glorious Spring day. Maybe we should all try some of the ‘forest-bathing’.
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This magical garden on Katy Kelleher’s blog caught my eye and I wanted to share with you on what is a most glorious Spring day. Maybe we should all try some of the ‘forest-bathing’.
Thank you, I have enjoyed this beautiful posting. It touches deeply. Watching the video
is magic and your description of how the garden is made fills me with wonder and gladness.
“Shinrin-yoku” – Forest-bathing. How true that is about our own wild forests also.
Now to become more creative in your own garden.
Mirja