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Coming Home and Healing in the Dirt

  • Posted by Victoria Hackett
  • Categories The Seedling BLOG
  • Date July 13, 2016
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Coming Home and Healing in the Dirt

I just watched Elizabeth Gilbert’s TED talk called Success, Failure and the Drive to Keep Creating. She shared her story about how difficult it was to create bodies of work after her huge “Eat, Pray, Love” success. She spoke about the importance of failure and of finding your way back ‘home’. She defined her writing as ‘home’. What is your ‘home’?

Early that day, my mother announced that she would be returning to England for her brother’s funeral this weekend. She had just sold a house in record time and felt her “decks were cleared”. We both agreed this was a sure sign from the universe. She is returning home.

Anticipating the difficult days ahead she noted how she plans to weed in her late brother’s English gardens to keep busy. I paused at her brilliance. My mother and I share a passion for gardening and a deep connection to the experience of digging in the dirt. I realized right then and there that, for my mom, gardening is the ‘home’ that Elizabeth Gilbert was talking about in her TED talk.

Coming ‘home’ is finding that place that provides a place of healing; a therapeutic haven. Gardening is my home. What is yours?

 

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Victoria Hackett

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My mission is for every child in every school to have access to an Outdoor Classroom. Therefore, I inspire educators to teach outdoors and lead an on-line virtual community of Natural Teachers all over the world to create their own Outdoor Classroom story.

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  1. anne
    July 14, 2016
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    I also treasure my gaden as home. Whenever I return from an outing or trip, my son shakes his head as I open the trunk of my car, then ignore the contents to attend to my garden. I can’t wait to water, dead head or weed. I find it soothing and it centers me. It is nice to have an outdoor classroom to come home to as well. That is why I enjoy teaching outdoors surrounded by all that needs to be nurtured.

    • Victoria Hackett
      July 14, 2016
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      Ahhh….I know exactly the feeling!

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