Comments on: The Garden of Manners http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/the-garden-of-manners/ Heronswood Voice - A web log written by George Ball Thu, 29 Jul 2010 13:23:01 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: George http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/the-garden-of-manners/#comment-14328 George Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:24:24 +0000 http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/?p=543#comment-14328 Thank you, Phil. Come back soon. Thank you, Phil. Come back soon.

]]> By: PHIL BINACO http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/the-garden-of-manners/#comment-13869 PHIL BINACO Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:23:33 +0000 http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/?p=543#comment-13869 i loved it! brilliant and sensitive i loved it! brilliant and sensitive

]]> By: George http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/the-garden-of-manners/#comment-14115 George Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:50:49 +0000 http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/?p=543#comment-14115 Dear Suzanne Thanks for your post. Please help me a bit. What sorts of advice would you like? I find giving out generic information to have been adequate. If I knew where you were, what light levels, your likes, etc. I could make more intelligent suggestions. However, you will be happy to read many upcoming posts that will cover spring gardens 2009 at both the Doylestown and Kingston sites. Our eight 2009 Opens don't interest you? Five in PA and three in WA? Thanks again. Dear Suzanne
Thanks for your post. Please help me a bit. What sorts of advice would you like? I find giving out generic information to have been adequate. If I knew where you were, what light levels, your likes, etc. I could make more intelligent suggestions. However, you will be happy to read many upcoming posts that will cover spring gardens 2009 at both the Doylestown and Kingston sites. Our eight 2009 Opens don’t interest you? Five in PA and three in WA? Thanks again.

]]> By: Suzanne http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/the-garden-of-manners/#comment-13754 Suzanne Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:49:45 +0000 http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/?p=543#comment-13754 I don't really come to you (and by subscribing to this blog I do choose to read you) for your take on the political situation. I well know that these are unusual times in that regard, but I'm not very happy with the increasingly political slant you have taken with these blogs. Unless I begin to get some more applicable gardening advice or whatever it is I hoped to get from you by subscribing, I will be forced to unsubscribe. I'm really not interested in your views on US politics, nor am I interested in the remaining embers of the feelings engendered by the demise of the former Heronswood incarnation. I do expect you to be a voice of authority about the unique plants that you provide, and would truly appreciate more information than you are currently providing about those plants and how best to use and cultivate them. I strongly believe you are deeply knowledgeable about gardening, and would really appreciate a sharing of that depth with your readers. I don’t really come to you (and by subscribing to this blog I do choose to read you) for your take on the political situation. I well know that these are unusual times in that regard, but I’m not very happy with the increasingly political slant you have taken with these blogs. Unless I begin to get some more applicable gardening advice or whatever it is I hoped to get from you by subscribing, I will be forced to unsubscribe. I’m really not interested in your views on US politics, nor am I interested in the remaining embers of the feelings engendered by the demise of the former Heronswood incarnation.

I do expect you to be a voice of authority about the unique plants that you provide, and would truly appreciate more information than you are currently providing about those plants and how best to use and cultivate them. I strongly believe you are deeply knowledgeable about gardening, and would really appreciate a sharing of that depth with your readers.

]]> By: George http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/the-garden-of-manners/#comment-14327 George Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:51:13 +0000 http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/?p=543#comment-14327 Wow, John, thanks. First, I was wrong about the location indeed. But here's my point—it's not a veneer, it's the upper and front parts of the brain, and they run the "reflections" which may sink in as they sit in their tavernas. Of course, I agree, they went again and again, because the lower brain is so much "fun". However, all they got was a few spectacles—our society watches this junk every day for hours. My concern is the next high point in civilization might not be so high. Where's our next Shakespeare? Dante? Thanks again. Wow, John, thanks. First, I was wrong about the location indeed. But here’s my point—it’s not a veneer, it’s the upper and front parts of the brain, and they run the “reflections” which may sink in as they sit in their tavernas. Of course, I agree, they went again and again, because the lower brain is so much “fun”. However, all they got was a few spectacles—our society watches this junk every day for hours. My concern is the next high point in civilization might not be so high. Where’s our next Shakespeare? Dante? Thanks again.

]]> By: John Friel http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/the-garden-of-manners/#comment-13750 John Friel Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:50:03 +0000 http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/?p=543#comment-13750 George, a fine rumination. I could not agree more strongly with your point that our media seem bent on pandering to the lowest possible common denominator. Noise and news seem indistinguishable to too many. I'm afraid I must also agree with TC: Civilization is but a thin veneer laid quite recently over eons of savagery. One needn't scratch very deeply to engage the underlying beast. Ergo, I disagree with your conclusion that the audience left those Roman spectacles feeling "ghastly," or ashamed. The Coliseum (NOT the Forum, which was a religious/political center, not a stadium) held 50,000 people. Shame doesn't fill that many seats week after week. They loved it. Do Americans leave (or turn off) an NFL game feeling ashamed because some brave, talented young men were carried out on stretchers, perhaps never to walk again? Nah. We'll be back. George,
a fine rumination. I could not agree more strongly with your point that our media seem bent on pandering to the lowest possible common denominator. Noise and news seem indistinguishable to too many.
I’m afraid I must also agree with TC: Civilization is but a thin veneer laid quite recently over eons of savagery. One needn’t scratch very deeply to engage the underlying beast.
Ergo, I disagree with your conclusion that the audience left those Roman spectacles feeling “ghastly,” or ashamed. The Coliseum (NOT the Forum, which was a religious/political center, not a stadium) held 50,000 people. Shame doesn’t fill that many seats week after week. They loved it.
Do Americans leave (or turn off) an NFL game feeling ashamed because some brave, talented young men were carried out on stretchers, perhaps never to walk again? Nah. We’ll be back.

]]> By: George http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/the-garden-of-manners/#comment-14326 George Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:02:48 +0000 http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/?p=543#comment-14326 Thanks, SR, and please post again. Thanks, SR, and please post again.

]]> By: srburbank http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/the-garden-of-manners/#comment-13749 srburbank Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:01:28 +0000 http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/?p=543#comment-13749 What a beautifully written piece (peace!). Thanks. What a beautifully written piece (peace!). Thanks.

]]> By: George http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/the-garden-of-manners/#comment-14325 George Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:38:37 +0000 http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/?p=543#comment-14325 Bravo! More poetry! Bravo! More poetry!

]]> By: REA http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/2009/03/the-garden-of-manners/#comment-13683 REA Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:37:48 +0000 http://www.heronswoodvoice.com/?p=543#comment-13683 And thus the reason why I'd so much rather spend my spare time in the garden than in front of the TV, listening to all the "talking heads" and their pointless comments. "Words like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within." Alfred Lord Tennyson And thus the reason why I’d so much rather spend my spare time in the garden than in front of the TV, listening to all the “talking heads” and their pointless comments. “Words like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson

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