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Have a Wonderful Winter

David Sheen — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 12:00:27 +0000

WELL, IT’S BEEN A LOVELY May – December romance, blogging and creating content for Green Apple, and charting out an ecological business plan for the company. Now that winter is starting to take hold, we will be winding down operations for the coming months. Peter and Andrea will still be available for consultation, estimation, designing and planning. In fact, December, January, February, and March are great months to get a conversation going about what you would like your yard to look like next year. And of course, we are still very happy to design and build you an indoor living wall, anytime you like. But as soon as heavy snowfall blankets the city, our teams in the field will pack it in for the winter.

NO MATTER WHO YOUR higher power is, the winter solstice is celebrated as a festival of lights all over the world. When the sun gets so low in the sky and the hours of the daylight dwindle down to depressingly few — at least for all of the countries north of the equator — we feel a human need to come together with friends and family. And when the sun, source of all of our life energy past and present, pulls itself out of free-fall and begins to trace arcs in the skyline that are ever-higher and higher on the horizon, we are filled with hope. Just as all living things on the planet are reborn, so may we ourselves be renewed, dedicating the year to come, let it be better and brighter.

AS THE EARTH REVOLVES around the sun, we resolve in our hearts to increase the peace in world. And we wish you a wonderful winter in 2009 and a happy new year in 2010, with love from all your friends at Green Apple Landscaping.

Dressed for Excess

David Sheen — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:01:28 +0000

WORK HARD, PLAY HARD: that’s our motto. When Halloween falls on a weekend, there’s absolutely no excuse not to let your hair down and put out your freak flag. Dressing up and acting up is fun, it lets us try on different ideas of being, unencumbering ourselves from expectations. Look, Peter’s baby boy Caiden is only a month old, and even he got into the action… he’s even rocking a pose! Hope you all had a happy Halloween…

Another New Year!

David Sheen — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:40:50 +0000

UNTIL I RETURNED TO WORK at Green Apple in late May, I had spent the last several years living in other countries on other continents in other cultures that did not celebrate Halloween. Sure, pretty much every culture has it own version of Dress-Up Day, where down is up and up is down and just about everything goes. For example, here is a photo of me and a friend at a Purim party about a year and a half ago, in Israel. But there’s something special about Halloween, for me. And it’s not the candy! It’s the explicit embracing of the dark, holy half of the human soul and the spirit world. So to all my fellow witches in the T-Dot rocking the pentagram, Happy Pagan New Year! To all my Taqwacore Sufis and Pirate Punks, here’s wishing y’all an Eid Mubarak! And to all the Necromancing Ninjas in the house, and to the whole 4-1-6 Zombie Zoo: have a super-duper Day of the Dead!