Tuning Fork

The Garden House  blog hopes to explore the spirit of the Garden House—a spirit built on attitude, values, intentions, behaviors. The Garden House has no obvious “scalability” as the Ted.com crew would want, save its basic model: be honest, be authentic, don’t sell fluff, don’t really sell. These basic principles are what I imagine appeal to the folks who choose to visit the Garden House—I have no idea how many hits it requires to blow the wheat of subtext truth from the chaff of marketing hyperbole, how many virtual frogs have to be kissed in order to find a prince/princess among the acres of internet cottage’s and cabin’s wetlands for rent. My take on much of my competition’s marketing approach is some combination of selling a specific getaway image (generally spinning romance) along with a perhaps unintentional withholding of information. My approach feels naive, innocent, transparent; I want you to know just about everything I can think of that would help you decide if the Garden House is not just your kind of space, but more importantly your kind of place. I imagine you want to sense the kind of energy that will encompass where you will spend precious time and resources, to ensure that what is here resonates to who you are or what you need. The purity and cleanliness of that energetic, tonal resonance is the whole point—the time you spend away is intended to refresh, renew, relax, re-energize. Your time away ideally will create a glow in which just the memory can be instantly refreshing. A friend of a friend, in describing the quality of an agricultural product and the attention to detail that creating it required, labeled the item “temple grade”. May we all seek to find, and create, a temple grade attitude, where ever we are, with whatever we do, in our connections with others and the planet, as we make our daily way.