Comments on wabi-sabihomeandgarden: A Special Day at the Wabi-Sabi House

KC - I LOVE the TED talks! Going to look now.

2009-10-06T15:33:28.580-07:00

KC - I LOVE the TED talks! Going to look now.

Oops, it cut off the link. Just go to the TED web...

2009-10-06T12:09:32.887-07:00

Oops, it cut off the link. Just go to the TED website and look up Jonathan Zittrain, or search for the title Web as a Random Act of Kindness.
kat

I too love Pam's blog, mainly for her freaking ama...

2009-10-06T12:07:20.395-07:00

I too love Pam's blog, mainly for her freaking amazing photos, but also for the inspiraiton in trying so many things. But I love your blog for its "life-as-art" philosophy. So fun.

Speaking of paying it forward and the kind gardening community, watch this TED talk on the Web as a random act of kindness. Amazing!

http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/jonathan_zittrain_the_web_is_a_random_act_of_kindness.html

Blog on ladies!! I'll be seeing you!
kat

Around Austin it is my impression many people owe ...

2009-10-05T10:10:26.048-07:00

Around Austin it is my impression many people owe a lot to Pam in terms of inspiration and encouragement. All part of the gardening schema yes? Generosity of spirit, nurturing, etc... You go ladies!

AKK! I didn't realize the word, venerable, is asso...

2009-10-05T09:28:09.023-07:00

AKK! I didn't realize the word, venerable, is associated with age. I thought it was "respect based on merit." Being a young-in-spirit yet middle-aged woman myself, I switched it to illustrious.

What a warm and welcoming group the garden blog community is. Thank you again for "paying it forward" to me. I promise to do the same someday.

October 5, 2009 9:26 AM

Aww, Michele (and Finnigan), you are very welcome ...

2009-10-05T07:34:23.001-07:00

Aww, Michele (and Finnigan), you are very welcome for the mention. Now I'm smiling too, even though you called me "venerable" (I just had a birthday yesterday). ;-)

It makes me happy to know that other people have found your blog via my post. I'm just "paying forward" what a blogger I admired did for me three years ago. Michele Owens of Sign of the Shovel (now defunct) and later Garden Rant wrote up a really nice post about my new blog and totally made my day. She wrote: "My God, check out the photos of what this woman is doing in Austin, TX! Vitex! Agave! Incredible colors! Plants I cannot even identify! This is the kind of powerfully prurient stuff that makes repressed Northeastern gardeners want to leave their homes, jobs, and families and start living some cowboy-, agave-, and beer-focused Texas life. It ought to be outlawed."

It still makes me smile to read this. And so I like to pay it forward when I can. Enjoy the well-deserved attention. :-)

I found you through Pam's blog. :) I love the Pan ...

2009-10-05T07:04:09.506-07:00

I found you through Pam's blog. :) I love the Pan story. That is hilarious. Did you paint that yourself? I must be out of the loop because I hadn't heard the term wabi-sabi before, although I have embraced the concept whole-heartedly without naming it. If more people embraced wabi-sabi in the landscape, I think there'd be more gardens!