{"id":605,"date":"2014-09-01T07:51:11","date_gmt":"2014-09-01T11:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/?p=605"},"modified":"2014-09-01T09:46:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-01T13:46:35","slug":"virtual-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robinbotie.com\/blog\/virtual-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"A Virtual Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"VirtualThe yellow flowers quivered as I plopped the small plant into the hole I\u2019d dug. I tamped the soil down around it. Done. Thankfully there had been no run-ins with earthworms. No bugs.
\n\u201cI can water it myself,\u201d my friend says.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo what\u2019s this virtual garden you keep talking about?\u201d she asks.
\n\u201cWell, it\u2019s going to be a place online, on my website\u2019s Home Page<\/a> actually. Soon, people can go there and if they email me a picture of their loved one who died, I will Photoshop the face into a flower in the garden.\u201d
\n\u201cBut why a garden?\u201d my friend asks. \u201cYou say you don\u2019t like gardening.\u201d
\n\u201cBecause gardens are comforting places<\/a>. Healing places. I like gardens. Being in them, seeing the colors, watching things grow. I just hate weeding and worms and getting dirt in my fingernails.\u201d
\n\u201cBut that\u2019s half the fun,\u201d she says. And then my friend<\/a> asks, \u201cCan I give you a picture of (my husband) and have you put him in your garden?\u201d<\/p>\n

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The yellow flowers quivered as I plopped the small plant into the hole I’d dug. I tamped the soil down around it. Done. Thankfully there had been no run-ins with earthworms. No bugs. “I can water it myself,” my friend says. “So what’s this virtual garden you keep talking about?” she asks. “Well, it’s going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[235,236,234,240,238,239],"class_list":["post-605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1","tag-garden-of-hope","tag-gardening-for-health","tag-healing-garden","tag-photoshop-garden-image","tag-virtual-garden","tag-virtual-healing-garden"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t