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Reflections on a Natural World: Three Works by Guest Poet Dayle Olson

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Reflections on a Natural World: Three Works by Guest Poet Dayle Olson This week, guest poet Dayle Olson returns to The Renaissance Garden Guy with three short works that brilliantly – and lovingly – demonstrate her keen awareness, appreciation, and respect for the natural world’s glories, no matter their […]

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Take 2 Glazed Doughnuts and Call Me in the Morning

Take 2 Glazed Doughnuts (and an A1C Pill) and Call Me in the Morning

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Take 2 Glazed Doughnuts (and an A1C Pill) and Call Me in the Morning Overeating is fun, and it’s easy to do! Stroke? Heart disease? Diabetes? Nonsense! Live it up, have a pill, take 2 glazed doughnuts, and call me in the morning! By John G. Stamos Inclusivity is

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“The Marfan Man” by Guest Writer Eva Newcastle

39 Comments / Blogging, Writing, and Original Works, Guest Writers and Contributors / September 17, 2023

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy “The Marfan Man” by Guest Writer Eva Newcastle “The Marfan Man” by guest writer Eva Newcastle marks the supremely talented novelist’s debut here on The Renaissance Garden Guy. You’ll not soon forget this brilliant, achingly beautiful short story. Greetings, readers and subscribers. I’m honored and thrilled to welcome a

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The End of Summer: Redux

10 Comments / Blogging, Writing, and Original Works, Earthly Thoughts / August 31, 2023

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy The End of Summer: Redux Back in early September of 2021, I clogged your device screens with hundreds of photos from my garden in a feature called “Spring and Summer’s Path Through My Garden.” It was an image-laden review published per multiple requests from RGG readers and subscribers looking

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Building a Memory

26 Comments / Blogging, Writing, and Original Works, Earthly Thoughts, Family and Friends / August 24, 2023

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Building a Memory The memories I keep of my remarkable mate are indelible and eternal. I’ll carry her in my heart and in my mind until the day I die. And she’ll never be forgotten by those whose lives she’d touched over the years. But for those rare few

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My Girl

48 Comments / Blogging, Writing, and Original Works, Earthly Thoughts, Family and Friends / July 11, 2023

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy My Girl My girl remains forever in my heart and forever on my mind. Life does go on, but it will never be the same without my Dee Dee. By John G. Stamos “Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you got ‘til it’s gone?”

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Buds

32 Comments / Blogging, Writing, and Original Works, Earthly Thoughts, Family and Friends, Gardening and Garden Design / May 30, 2023

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Buds The word “buds” is a deceptively loaded one. It’s short, but it can be useful in making sense of some of life’s realities and vicissitudes. By John G. Stamos I’ve written here many times before about the activity of gardening’s usefulness as a backdrop for many seemingly unrelated

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Haiku Hijinks and Utter Stupidity

18 Comments / Blogging, Writing, and Original Works, Earthly Thoughts / March 31, 2023

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Haiku Hijinks and Utter Stupidity Not only is corrupting a venerable written art form reprehensible, it’s really stupid. Sounds exactly like something I would do. By John G. Stamos I am an idiot… One particularly cold and snowy day in early March last year, I was out in my

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Why Start a Blog?

14 Comments / Blogging, Writing, and Original Works, Earthly Thoughts / March 10, 2023

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Why Start a Blog? Why start a blog? What are the benefits? How much work is involved? How do I do it? Where do I start? Lots of questions, I know. I’ll give you the answers to what I consider some of the most important ones right here. By

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Nature’s Grace: Guest Poet Dayle Olson’s Wondrous Reflections

18 Comments / Blogging, Writing, and Original Works, Guest Writers and Contributors / February 28, 2023

Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Nature’s Grace: Guest Poet Dayle Olson’s Wondrous Reflections Nature’s grace is indeed the subject of guest poet Dayle Olson’s reflections in today’s very special feature. The acclaimed published poet makes her debut on The Renaissance Garden Guy with her contribution of two profoundly beautiful works that thoughtfully celebrate some

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