The Painted Garden – Details, episodes & analysis

Kimberly sits in her Top Hat Garden in the Rain with you. Arthur Miller on Tragedy. Some characters in the Garden.

Kimberly brings listeners into the intimacy of a Rune Reading: The Gateway & The Unknowable. 

Kimberly talks about the Intro Track, Louise Glück's poem "Telescope," the Relationship Between Painting and Gardening, and the Structure of the Color Wheel.

Matisse and the "difference between things."
Georgio O'Keeffe and the AND factor.

Rebecca Solnit's "Paradise in Hell"
Lewis Hyde's "Trickster Makes this World"

Top Hat Garden Update!

Kimberly kicks-off her new podcast with an intro, a description of what's happening in the garden now, and a reading and discussion of Richard Wilbur's poem "The Beautiful Changes."

The Beautiful Changes

BY RICHARD WILBUR

One wading a Fall meadow finds on all sides   

The Queen Anne’s Lace lying like lilies

On water; it glides

So from the walker, it turns

Dry grass to a lake, as the slightest shade of you   

Valleys my mind in fabulous blue Lucernes.

The beautiful changes as a forest is changed   

By a chameleon’s tuning his skin to it;   

As a mantis, arranged

On a green leaf, grows

Into it, makes the leaf leafier, and proves   

Any greenness is deeper than anyone knows.

Your hands hold roses always in a way that says   

They are not only yours; the beautiful changes   

In such kind ways,   

Wishing ever to sunder

Things and things’ selves for a second finding, to lose   

For a moment all that it touches back to wonder.

Richard Wilbur, “The Beautiful Changes” from Collected Poems 1943-2004. Copyright © 2004 by Richard Wilbur. Reprinted with the permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Inc. This material may not be reproduced in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher.

Source: Collected Poems 1943-2004 (2004)

May Sarton's letter to Virginia Woolf, January 1939. Thinking of Spring in January. Poetry as a way of Seeing. Rilke. Teaching Creativity. Lessons for the Studio: Ritual; Leap of Faith.

What is a Color Practice? A Language for Color. Robert Hass' poem "Weed." Mary Oliver's poem "Wild Geese."

Smokebushed. From Wallace Stevens' "It Must Be Abstract": Structures in a Mist. The Liminal. Harmony. Matisse. Mary Oliver's "The Old Poet's of China."

Portals of Infinity. The Blue Jays. The Tomato Vines. Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath."

The Smokebush Magic, Mentorship, The Creative Process, Project "Rules," Wallace Stevens' "It Must Be Abstract" Part VII.