Dateline: September 4, 2011
In Carson McCullers' words, The HEART is a Lonely Hunter....and on your Birthday, may you re-joyce in all the revelations, searches (hunts), discoveries and crafting that you continually share with your companeros.

As you ease back into the bliss of your day-lee joys & cares, your light will brighten for all of us.

"The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!"
— Carson McCullers (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)

"Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them."
— Carson McCullers (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter)

JuJu...in tending to your garden, the seeds and cuttings that you or bird droppings bring to it, can there be any more refined precedent to your mystic planning & profusion than the medieval Love Garden? Your hands yet belong in the soil!

The Love Garden conjures up the seeker's sensual quest for happiness...the search for an earthly paradise. In courtly literature this enclosed garden, hidden from sight is the ideal meeting place for...

Pleasure gardens, which developed from the 13th century onwards, drew inspiration from these gardens described in courtly literature: they encompassed refined architectural features, sophisticated installations such as turf-topped seats, trellis of lattice-work intertwined with flowers, bowers, arbours or pergolas to ward off the sun, topiary art created from clipped shrubs...

Different fragrances blend to appeal to the senses; the aromatic odours of thyme or camomile growing in the turf-topped seats...
--from Le Jardin d'amour described at Cluny.

What is this pray?