Pita, Prayers, and Perennials
Welcome to a sanctuary of
Recipes
Inspiration
Gardening Tips
My hope is for all to receive sanctuary and encouragement, including hospitality venues and ideas, conversational meditations, and organic gardening tips. Topics will range from the deeply personal to the light and entertaining, but all with the purpose of uplifting you while encouraging you to think deeply.
Set the Stage
My twelve-year-old granddaughter has been busy setting the stage, especially her desk, for school to start. We receive face-time calls from her almost every day with a running commentary on the welfare of her two dogs, one illusive cat, and her new favorite pet, a gecko! We savor these phone calls and hope they never end, but who am I kidding?! Teenage years are right around the corner. But I digress!
September Garden Checklist
September is the start of the most intensive work in the Texas garden. If you put the work in from September through November, your plants will happily weather winter and rejoice once spring returns!
Apophenia, Seeing Meaningful Patterns
I learned a new word this week, apophenia, “seeing meaningful patterns in randomness (Webster).”