Posts Tagged ‘Death’
Letting Go: Garden Writer Elizabeth Lawrence on the Death of her Father
“Autumn asks that we prepare for the future — that we be wise in the ways of garnering and keeping. But it also asks that we learn to let go — to acknowledge the beauty of sparseness.” Late October, 1935, Duke Hospital in Durham The garden writer Elizabeth Lawrence visited her father in the hospital.…
Read MoreSir Arthur Conan Doyle: He wrote in his Garden Shed and is Buried in his Garden
“His family found him lying on the ground, one hand clutching his heart and the other holding a white snowdrop.” May 22, 1859 On this day, the British writer and doctor Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was born. In researching Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s life, I learned that Arthur was bedridden the spring before he…
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