Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Guest Writer Nenad Knežević on Nature and Poetry’s Nexus This week, The Renaissance Garden Guy hosts guest writer Nenad Knežević, creator of the internationally renowned Grammaticus website and blog. The esteemed writer and academician contributes a beautiful essay on the joys of walking amidst nature, the art of appreciating
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Away, and Away My poem, “Away, and Away”. I hope you’ll enjoy it. By John G. Stamos Away, and Away John G. Stamos The first robin. A corsage. A first kiss. A first love. A first car (a drop-top). The first firefly. Stars you can touch. Crickets and pizza. And soda pop. The Clash and
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy How Do Climbing Vines Actually Climb? So how do climbing vines actually climb? Good question. And a good thing that my friend, Bob, is here to help me answer it. Today, Bob discovers that not all garden variety ornamental climbing vines are created equal. Turns out that different kinds
Mary This is my original work, “Mary”. It’s the first of my poems to be published here in The RGG. I hope you’ll enjoy it. By John G. Stamos Mary John G. Stamos To hold this ephemeral sigh, this diaphanous notion, You, wistful moonlight on the crest of a wave… Upon grim traversing embarks this
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Our Gardens, Our Lives: Parallels Examined by Laura Lewis-Barr With this week’s offering, Laura Lewis-Barr returns to The Renaissance Garden Guy and reveals another of her passions: gardening. And she’s quick to point out the remarkable parallels that exist between the vicissitudes of our own lives, and the happenings
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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Assessing Nature with a Certain Detachment, or, How I Learned to Love the Great Outdoors (Even Though I’ve Got a Wrecked Eyeball) An ocular misfortune put the brakes on my gardening efforts and landed them in the compost pile right along with my eyesight. I couldn’t tend my garden
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy A Rain Delay A rain delay? There’s no need to roll out the tarps. The game’s not going to be called. In fact, a rainy day in spring is the perfect time to catch all the action in the garden. By John G. Stamos I had originally planned another
Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy Life Through a Jungian Lens: Guest Writer Laura Lewis-Barr on the Theories of Carl Jung This week, The Renaissance Garden Guy welcomes guest writer Laura Lewis-Barr. The award-winning filmmaker and author discusses her introduction to the work of the renowned psychologist and its impact on her thoughts and vocation.
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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy The Girl of the Braids: A True Story by Pepita Rodrigo Enjoy a free download of this lovely autobiographical account of a young girl growing up in post-World War II Catalonia. In The Girl of the Braids, Pepita Rodrigo recounts her most poignant childhood experiences, and they read more
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Subscribe to The Renaissance Garden Guy For My Dogs This one’s for my dogs. Plain and simple. By John G. Stamos For several months now, a number of readers have been asking me to write something about my dogs, Tony and Clarabelle. Although they’ve both made a few cameos on Facebook and Twitter, these two
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