A storeroom of recycled paper beads at Gahaya Links, Kigali, Rwanda.
. . . And her voice is a string of colored beads,
Or steps leading into the sea. . . .
- Edna St. Vincent Millay, “Witch-Wife”
Filed under design, Rwanda life
Tagged as beading, beads, colored beads, Gahaya Links, paper beads, recycled paper, recycled paper beads, string of beads
And change this Garden for a Paradise.
-- John Aubrey, from the epitaph for the Tradescants
Methinks my own soul must be a bright invisible green.
-- Henry David Thoreau
The walled garden, an old dying princess
From a lost country, had grown very strange. . . .
-- May Sarton, from "The Walled Garden at Clondalkin"
Enclos*ure is my online notebook about the ways we carve gardens out of the larger landscape and create places of refuge, pleasure, and imagination.
I live in Kigali, Rwanda.
No day is right for the apocalypse.
-- William Matthews, from "The Waste Carpet"
A garden is a lovesome thing, God wot!
-- Thomas Edward Brown, from "My Garden"
I have a certificate in Landscape Design from George Washington University. I’m also a State Department Foreign Service spouse and have lived and made gardens in five countries in Africa in the last twenty-three years. I currently live in Kigali, Rwanda.
Contact me: cgoodson51@gmail.com
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