Far From Loam

From New York magazine’s Daily Intel blog, quoting from an interview with Sharon Stone at the Hamptons International Film Festival:
“What I am finding is that when you start to really clear old, dead things and really take that time to take away the old stuff and organize a garden and clear out and get in the dirt and weed things out and then see the new stuff that’s coming up and move things around, this time that you take that actually takes some labor and is meditative and organized with nature, you can get yourself in a harmonious place…It lines your body, mind, and spirit up in a way, particularly when you’re trying to get yourself in your creative work. It gets you in the right harmonious place.”

I guess it doesn’t ‘get you in the right succinct place,’ but you’ve still gotta love her sincerely “unscripted” description of the joy so many of us get from gardening.