A garden was one of the few ...

A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom.

A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom.

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As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

It always seems impossible until it's done.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.