Your mind is a garden,
your thoughts are the seeds,
the harvest can be either flowers or weeds.

Author Unknown

Looking Down

34 Comments CherryPie on Jun 27th 2010

34 Responses to “Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week”

  1. Katya says:

    The vibrant colors here are just mind-boggling! What a gorgeous garden!!!!

  2. Sean Jeating says:

    One cannot be s … ah, well: I am not sure whether some thoughts of mine I do / have consider(ed) weeds in fact are flowers; and vice versa.

    Hm, an interesting thought, inweed, CherryPie. Thank you.
    And the photo: … [lost for words*]

    * Well, (English) words don’t come easy to me these days, anyway.

  3. Sean Jeating says:

    Oops. Did I say these days?

    • CherryPie says:

      All the thoughts you have shared have been seeds and flowers, I don’t remember any weeds.

      Your English words have always been very enlightening :-)

      • Sean Jeating says:

        Ah, you are very kind, CherryPie. Thank you!
        Your kind reply evidences, though, that once again I was able to put my thoughts in misunderstable a way.
        Trying again, this time impersonal: One cannot always be sure if one’s thoughts (or the thoughts of others) are weeds or flowers.
        Often what we’d consider weeds (futile/unprofitable/useless) has its very specific beauty/ benefit [? if that's the right word].

        PS: Not missing one post I am / I have been, but when it comes/came to commenting (and replying comments on my blog): look above.
        Good to know there’s someone forgiving me with a lenient smile.
        The peace of the night.

  4. Claudia says:

    I doubt the garden in my mind could ever reach the flowering splendour of your photo. But visiting your creative posts and flickr always gives me inspiring thoughts and pulls away tenacious weeds. Thank you, CP! :)

  5. Ginnie says:

    Thanks for that inspirational thought for starting off my week, Cherie!

  6. Denise says:

    What a fantastic quote! Just about sums up my weekend slog in the garden! lol! Thanks so much!

  7. CalumCarr says:

    I am a weedsman, no flowers do I see
    I’m lost in a garden so full of debris

  8. jameshigham says:

    One of your more colourful ones – Bodnant Garden – hope it matches your mood today.

  9. Marcie says:

    Such a gorgeous garden..and perfect quote to start the week!

  10. MTG says:

    So true. Just like this garden, effort is required to make and keep a beautiful mind.

  11. Sadly my mind has far too many weeds!

  12. “Your mind is a garden,
    your thoughts are the seeds,
    the harvest can be either flowers or weeds”.

    I found a wasteland, and beside it a tree. The trunk has a branch, and from that twigs sprout. I took a sliver from the branch, and planted it into a field of its own. I also planted seeds in this field. I watched them grow. I had to cut a path through the jungle surrounding the original tree. The natives got restless at my disturbing their terriority. So, I claimed some of their scalps. The tribe insisted that I follow their methods of cultivation, however, they were too fixed in their old ways to accept a new approach. Then the medicine man passed by selling his cure, some of the tribe thought it worked whilst others distrusted its curative powers. I thought both camps were right to some extent. In any event, aware of its limitations I tried some of the new medicine in my field and it appeared to do the trick to a certain extent. The natives complained about my crop as it flourished and grew out onto their land. The different varieties in my orchard produced different fruits, therefore different reactions. The tribe bought some and rejected others out of hand. Bearing in mind that the witchdoctor had spoken with forked tongue, and belonged to their tribe, the tribal chief and I agreed to put our differences to the tribe over the stream to settle our dispute.

    The tree is public law, the branch administrative law, and the sliver became prison law now a field in its own right.

    • CherryPie says:

      Very clever :-) Did you write it?

      • Yes. When I set out to study law I went to the source and roots, philosophy, sociology, criminology, history, geography, economics. I read the theory and analysed it with my situation and how it worked in practice. My own school of thought is called Prison Law Inside Out. It’s a law in context, ‘living law’ approach adapted to the prison environment. The view is different down here, and even when we look out of the same window we see different things. Look at the irony of Teresa May fining the EHRC for failing to deliver a report on time, and the government ignoring a court decision for 5 years…

  13. No, but I believe that Ken Clarke is to announce penal reform measures tomorrow. If he does not go far enough, I won’t remain silent. I am a committed Human Rights Defender.

    • CherryPie says:

      We should never remain silent for what we believe in be it human rights, freedom of speech etc

      You are making me think of my lovely friend Luisa :-)

  14. liz says:

    At the moment I think quite a lot of flowers with a reasonable sprinkling of weeds. For a weed is after all only a flower in the wrong place!