Stay Close to Nature and Its Music

July 19, 2011 Written by arden

The speed of your car is all that consumes you with your destination compelling this.  You are late for some important appointment. Your phone rings, and you may be in the conversation of your dreams with someone present, and still the ring compells you to answer. Your computer crashes, and all you can do is […]

Take Another Hand, Move Through a New World

June 26, 2011 Written by arden

          During my last sharing, I talked about letting go – letting go of preoccupations that fill all the spaces in our lives so that there leaves no room for reflection, discovery, creation.   We explored how conflict can fill our minds and our being so that it is difficult to experience peace, calm, joy.  We […]

Letting Go to Let in the Light

June 20, 2011 Written by arden

      In this season of increasing light in the Northern Hemisphere when the summer Solstice is approaching and the days are at their longest, so we look now at the illumination of the sunlight on the  truth of our lives as we truly experience them.  We are going to be looking at what we hold […]

Overcoming fear to realize A Dream, A vision and a Journey to Serenity

May 14, 2011 Written by arden

With excitement and joy, I am so happy to tell you all about a dream that I have nurtured and that has become reality.  For a very long time, I have wanted to join my heart with my voice and with music, to take others on a journey through a world that would contain images […]

Welcoming the Opening Blossoms in the Eye of the Storm

May 7, 2011 Written by arden

Welcome all into the garden. Thank you all so much for your warm replies to these sharings about the world of the Garden of Tranquility, and how all of us can “step into the serenity”(watch for the new guided meditation cd ‘Step into Serenity” that will appear in the “Dream Market” section of this website […]

Life in the Season of Rebirth

April 23, 2011 Written by arden

Welcome to the season of spring, everyone. It is a time in much of the world when that which was seemingly not alive shows new form and color- brown bark now with green leaves yellowish in their newness, and blossoms- white, pale pink, deep fuscia. It is something that is intellectually known, yet takes us […]

When snakes are in the garden

April 17, 2011 Written by arden

This is a metaphor, an image that many of us are familiar with. There is a beauty, a peace around you in your world, and suddenly something comes into it that gives you a shock- it can shake your faith in everything and cloud your view of anything lovely that is around you or within […]

All that is Spring

April 15, 2011 Written by arden

I write to you from the northeastern United States, where Spring is showing its first true signs. Wherever you are in the world, whether your weather system has a change from a colder time to a warmer one where bare stalks and branches show signs of green or budding, there is a time in life […]

“Everything you need to know..in golf”

April 3, 2011 Written by arden

I shared with a dear friend. music therapist Larry Carlson, co-creator of our Artists’ Initiative for Hope and Prosperity, that I had written about the extraordinary film Legend of Bagger Vance.  “.”)( see the gorgeous and inspiring from the film in the cd Music from the Legend of Bagger Vance ) I had been on his radio […]

Discover your Dream- Give Way to Your Vision

March 27, 2011 Written by arden

Welcome again to the Garden  I am so heartened to hear from you, that you are here, where together we can discover peace and joy.   There are those “flowers that Bloom” unto themselves- wonderful things in life to behold, the treasures around us, and the treasures we hold within us.  And we are here to […]


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