Ten Things to Nurture Your Zen “Garden”

“In the early summer of 1997, my husband and I found ourselves in the backyard of a house on a quiet street in Sierra Madre, a suburb of Los Angeles. The backyard was Southern California’s oldest private Japanese garden, an oasis of ponds and pines that had stood mostly intact since 1916. It seemed like paradise with our name written all over it.”

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