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Now that you’ve decided to downsize to a smaller home, what do you do when on occasion you have more guests visit than you now have space? Most of the time, the spare room will serve its functional everyday use as perhaps …

 ”Once I knew only darkness and stillness…my life was without past or future…but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness and my heart leaped …

At one of the elementary schools where I substitute teach, each Friday morning following the Pledge of Allegiance, Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA” is played, and the majority of students sing along. The very first time this song came on and a classroom full of second graders belted out these patriotic lyrics, it took everything I had to hold back the welling tears. A year and a half later, it still does.

“I have all my life been considering distant effects and sacrificing immediate success and applause to that of the future.”   Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903), known today as the “Father of Landscape Architecture,” was a brilliant landscape artist of the 19th century whose numerous well-known landscape projects include Central Park in Manhattan and the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, N.C.  The unabridged list of his lifetime accomplishments is quite long.