Growing Your Own

The latest coverage of the Urban Homestead® in Pasadena. Beauty, inspiration, self-reliance and hard work. What an excellent model of sustainable living in the city!

Grace

All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.

Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor , p. 307. December 9, 1958, letter to Cecil Dawkins regarding "people's questions about religion" and the faults of the Catholic church. Pages 306-308.

New lands

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

André Gide (Quoted in The Artist's Way, page 199.)