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When spring arrives, we have a tendency to want to start decluttering and cleaning closets. Don’t forget we also have to do a garden and...

We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community. Dorothy Day...

“Truth is rarely written in ink. It lives in nature.” Martin H. Fischer It all started with a box of toothpicks. My siblings and I...

Have you ever stuck your nose into the petals of a rose and inhaled in ecstasy? David Austin’s English Roses are some of the most...

By any proper civilized standard (but what does that mean now?) we are objects of horror. But our nerves are completely steady. And we...

Do you have to give speeches or talk to audiences? Does it frighten you? Learning how to give a powerful presentation in your own...

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” - Eleanor Roosevelt When you shut your eyes and ponder the...

The Oakland A’s baseball team is celebrating their 50th anniversary in 2018 and for the first time in their history, they have selected a...

Have you ever wondered what people working on movie sets ear? You may be surprised at the vast difference of levels of pay scale. From...

“People are always in good company when they are doing what they really enjoy.” ~Samuel Butler In the first three months of the year, we...

“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” —Thomas Merton • What is art? Do you think of paintings,...

The human spirit needs places where nature has not been rearranged by the hand of man. ~Source Unknown Completely covered by tangles of...

“We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” Immanual Kant How do animals make us better humans? Dr. Bernie Siegel,...

“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” ― Lao Tzu If love is all we need, then...

Are you aware of your world, the people, and the opportunities around you? Debut host, Jack Pawlakos, and host Katie Choo tackle the...

If you are adopting a new pet, there are a few things you need to know about raising an animal. Long time animal advocate and adopter,...

Roses Are Red By Cynthia Brian “That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet.” William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet...

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.” ― Voltaire Through stories of their...

Click to view this email in a browser: Happy 2018 Message form founder/Executive Director, Cynthia Brian It is not our intention to send...

Cynthia Brian's Newest Garden Book is Published! Just in time to banish the the winter blues, Cynthia Brian's first book in the Garden...