Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Trees make people with depression feel more secure


"It's a planting that has quite organic and quite natural form. And the idea behind that is rather than geometry and straight lines - you don't want people to feel forced through the garden, they need to feel compelled to move into it and meander round it at their own pace, and feel at complete ease when they move through the garden.” --Matt Keightley, garden designer of RHS Feel Good Garden

available at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/22/wild-untidy-gardens-better-mental-health-designer-claims-chelsea/

Thursday, May 24, 2018

below ground level


bark eventually    dissolves
            into its base chemicals     purging fluid
discolored wildflowers
            amongst generic tombstones
of energies trapped
    then released again into the wider

univers e

--poem by Astra Papachristodoulou, full poem entitled “below ground level” at
https://ypn.poetrysociety.org.uk/workshop/the-august-challenges-1-edgelands/