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- Marianne Simon
- It was in 1999 that Marianne Simon left her cushy job with MGM to start her own landscape business, but, her love of nature goes way back. In fact, while most kids were making mud pies, Marianne was eating them. Since then, her choice of dining venues has changed, but not her affinity to the earth. She founded her Landscape Company, Poetic Plantings, with the vision of creating gardens that would nurture the spirit and nourish the earth. She received her certificate in Landscape Architecture from UCLA Extension and is a G3 (Green Gardens Group) Certified Sustainable Landscape Professional. She is also a proud member of Santa Monica's Sustainable Landscape Program, as well as having been nominated for Santa Monica's Sustainable Quality Award. These days her focus is educating and consulting for homeowners and professionals on watershed wise landscape practices. She also works with G3 creating curriculum, leading workshops, and developing workforce development programs.
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Category Archives: Writings
A Writer’s Prayer of Gratitude
It is the last lingering writing of the evening and we are slow dancing to 9:30. Thoroughly spent by the night’s activities, we have danced, and spun and twirled. So what do we need of this last piece, as the … Continue reading
Posted in Musings, Personal Transformation, Writings
Tagged Friendship, gratitude, writer's support, writing, writing group
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The Search For Your Life’s Purpose (and) What To Do In The Meantime.
Last year, I heard this great quote at a Mary Morrissey workshop. “You can’t get there using the same steps you used to get here.” I have to say, that quote inspired a lot of changes in my life. But … Continue reading
Sending Out Ships (or) What To Do When You Don’t Know What To Do Next
They say that letting go of attachment to outcome is one of the secrets to manifesting your heart’s desire. You are supposed to envision it, dream it, imagine it as if it is already happening, live it, love it, and … Continue reading
Turtle on a Rock (or ) Who Needs Multi-Tasking?!
I am questioning when it became such a great skill to be able to multi-task. Maybe it is my age showing. Or maybe it’s just plain scary to watch a bike rider texting on their phone with one hand while … Continue reading
Navigating Change (The ‘In-Between’ Place)
Today I am hoisting my anchor, raising my sail, and setting off to lands unknown. Trusting that I will be able to navigate my way thru this ‘in-between place.’ The ‘in-between’ place is the place of mists, of shadows, of … Continue reading
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Tagged change, dealing with change, life journey, life purpose, personal development, transition
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Landscape of the Soul
Last week I had four beautiful actresses sitting in my living room, reading excerpts from a performance piece I am developing, ‘Skins I have Worn.’ Six months ago I could not have imagined that as a reality. Anais Nin once … Continue reading
Posted in Musings, Writings
Tagged creative process, creativity, fear, manifesting, performing, writing
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Ruins
An arch, old stones, granite boulders. It is a shame you cannot smell a photograph. For that would tell me so much more than the picture. It would tell me that it had just rained and that the stones were … Continue reading
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Tagged ireland, longing, memory, nostalgia, photographs, poem, poetry, power of photographs
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Focus (A Walk Thru Obsession)
To yearn. To long for. To desire. To need. There was no way to turn it off. ‘So stay focused,’ she told herself. As long as she was thinking of here, she wasn’t needing to be there. So focus. It … Continue reading
This is the summer I am learning Spanish
It happened so gently, so easily I never noticed. My husband and I would take a morning walk down to the beach chit chatting about this or that: my work, his plans. One day he shared with me one of … Continue reading