Conveyor Belt

[primsong]

Help... all my friends postings are whipping past me on the Great Conveyor Belt of Time and I've only been able to scan them when I want to read, read and respond...!

It's my own "fault" of course - I've chosen to take a little time for my own pursuits, as I realized I was spending all my time responding to other people's pursuits and neglecting my own. I've created the forums for One Small Garden, (onesmallgarden.org...the Potting Shed... still needs an avatar gallery made up), started a new serial tale (Stone of Erebor), ventured into the Brave New World of posting my tales on other sites (fanfic.net and Stories of Arda), and painted a lot of bookmarker sticks for the library -

Such is life. Ah, but that we could clone our minutes and be able to truly do more than one thing at a time.

Comments

[kimbys-place.livejournal.com]

(((Prim))))
One more thing...what is "One Small Garden" all about? Is it a fic site, a Sean site, what?

[primsong.livejournal.com]

It's a non-profit organization to help people plan, build and maintain organic charity gardens. We're only fledglings - we just got the non-profit papers at last a couple weeks ago and so far our only garden is the Elanor garden in Beaverton. We have more applicants already, though, so we're hoping to get the next one going this coming year. Sean has decided entirely on his own to stick in his oar and help us get it funded and promoted, a real blessing.

[solodancer.livejournal.com]

that's really cool about Sean, but what exactly is an "organic charity garden"? I know the one you made was to be a reading garden attached to a library right? But what exactly is the "charity" aspect of it?

[primsong.livejournal.com]

The Elanor garden is attached to a place that does tutoring for children who struggle with reading and writing, and happens to be across from a library as well. The stepping-stones all have literary quotes on them. :-) At the moment, the building is also housing a tiny Catholic bookstore, so they love the literacy tie-in as well.

The "organic" means we're encouraging and teaching organic methods of maintaining the garden (mulch! mulch! ladybugs!) and helping choose plants that will survive well in that area, so they don't have to be chemically supported to live.

The "charity" part means it is a nonprofit, and our focus is encouraging volunteering/donations as the means to have the gardens put in and maintained. You won't see us putting in a garden for a wealthy bank, for instance, who could purchase landscaping architects - you will see community groups for the performing arts, children's clinics who have no funding for a healing garden, places for the underpriveleged or those that need that extra healing/peace a nice garden can bring... that sort of thing. They will not all be literacy focused, but may have other themes. We hope the stepping stones with quotes of the donar's choosing will continue.

Does that help? Goodness knows it's still quite new, but we're hopeful that it will work out.