Wednesday, I attended an amazing meeting about people,
nature, and ecological / sustainable landscape designs that nurture. The meeting started with our host describing
research about how a view through a window may influence recovery from surgery. Following his brief introduction into the
science of healing spaces, he asks us to introduce ourselves. Luckily, I was
toward the end of the introductions, for my mind was stuck looking out the
hospital window he had described. When I
broke my back the hospital room, I lay in for months, had a window that faced a
brick wall. One day my orthopedic surgeon
asks me if I would like to go outside, I remember the tears of joy. That short trip outside on a hospital gurney was
my first day to believe I could beat the morphine addiction I’d developed. What healing spaces do you have in your life?
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