Boxes, sheds, toys, ah! Toys, toys everywhere. This is a kid’s backyard, not a backyard in a suburban home for a distraught mum, wanting relief and calm. No sacred space or place for passivity of Chi to emerge and unite with its owner. This is the backyard to a home Day Care Child Minding Centre. A suburban backyard located in [...]
The bus driver said. “Sorry mate, I can’t let you get off here”, and continued blissfully along. He did me a favour dropping me off somewhere I hadn’t been before. I had to walk past a garden. It was there waiting for me to walk by and entice me to exclaim,’’This garden has it. Bloody mystery’’. I must be strange, [...]
If we are lucky enough to observe nature, we slowly become attuned to its rhythm and flow and its gentle transition from one state to another. Suggesting by living in harmony with our surroundings we accept nature’s will to maintain rhythm and flow within a climate of change. Change progressive and not regressive. Not static but transitional. Change the catalyst [...]
Driving around through suburbia to see how the other lives (more likely the other half per cent), one need go no further than cross the bridge onto Sovereign Islands Estate, Gold Coast, Queensland in Australia. Homes start here about $2ml and go up to about $10-15ml. Owners from a diversity of backgrounds and not all older retirees. Many quite young [...]
Three stages in life, what an absurdity, how can life be split into stages? Life is life and a transition from birth to death, but this journey could be broken down to view life from another prospective. Let’s break the journey into three, good a number as any, could go to nine, maybe so, but three will do for just [...]
‘’You know, there are two ways of looking at gardening ’’, I said to some hapless person. ‘’ Definitely many more, but these two will do for now’’. I think he was looking for an exit but anyway I went on with my ramble. I’ll call the first one the physical which relates to the physical act of gardening such [...]
I’ve written about this subject before and suggest too many properties list for sale and contain gardens lacking in appeal and presentation. An old car salesperson mate of mine used to say “Mate, the art of a sale is in presentation’’. He was exceptionally good at it. His yard always reflected tricks he picked up over the years including the [...]
Over the past so many years I’ve developed a vision of Chi (Qi) seen through 8 elements. I first saw these as a composition at Callala Bay on the New South Wales South Coast of Australia on an extraordinary afternoon gazing over a veranda with beer in hand and the sounds of the Rolling Stones in the background. I noticed [...]
Recently I’ve been talking to various people about Chi (Qi) Gardening and a discussion with two blokes come to mind. Both were successful, you know the big house, boat and maybe millionaire tag and both were interested in nature and their need to connect to it. To them connecting to nature removed them from the stresses of everyday life. One [...]
A few years ago I mentioned to a Feng Shui practitioner, I saw Chi (Qi) energies as a game between the goodies and the baddies. He quietly reminded me that wasn’t the case and suggested instead we look at the association between beneficial and detrimental Chi (Qi) energies. Thanks very much. Chi (Qi) energies are always in a state of [...]