at the garden. -- t garden -- tea garden. i want to welcome you here as well. and congratulate all of us for working so closely together and certainly our relationships are valuable. this is one of those reasons why not too many other consular general offices -- it is country to country and people to people. the council general and staff has offered yet another the supporting symbol of the relationship, the planting of cherry blossom trees throughout our city. we had awe have been celebratine cherry blossom festival. they are very peaceful, a relationship that we keep in mind always and we have done so for over 100 years. since the cherry blossoms are arrived as a gift to washington d.c. while we have gone for many years of that relationship, it is a requirement to know the san francisco enjoys 55 years of that relationship, many members of the district-city community here today to enjoy that. a member of the chamber of commerce is here to enjoy that as well. we have this relationship with you because we know san francisco's international status does not stop s

because japanese gardens are a huge aspect on the culture i started reading on gardens.the natural and the idea on how they use the gardens and how much it reads to them i started reading. i read a line like the silk worker line where it embraced me and i thought, that's what i would write about. you never walk from the front gate to the front door in a straight line it's always a curving path in which you discover things along the way. i said, that's it. he lands, he gets off the train and slowly he would walk down this path and discover the story of this caretaker along the way. it began to move. but, you know, when i speak of it it seems like it's simple. it was not simple. this month of thinking about things. this is times of writing things down and thinking it doesn't work. and i'm incredibly fortunate i have a writer's group i have written with and shown my work to for the last. we are trying to figure it out on the way over. i brought some of the audience with me. this is what you do when you are a writer. you never know who will come who read a book in 1985 so yo

love, samurai, garden and sushi. it was a terrible title and i didn't like it and i didn't know what to say i had never disagreed. that was the first time i disagree. i said i don't want to look at my book case and see that book and cringe in 30 years. she called me from new york and said, i don't know why we are going over the title thing let's keep it the samurai's garden. then i was saying, thank you, god and it became the samurai a garden which in the end worked when you decide hathat samurai is in your class you will see how it works. it works in many, many ways. i'm pleased it stayed the samurai's garden. not of anybody's choice but because it was the one we didn't want to fight over anymore. >> okay. >> [laughter]. >> thank you. i >> i think you wanted something else. >> well, i met the samurai and [laughter] >> thank you. >> thank you, gale so much for coming. >> [applause]. thank you.

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for louis, versailles was intended first to be a garden, and he imagined that garden as an outdoor palaceuilt next to the one constructed in stone, and the one could not be understood without the other. in the garden, louis exercised the same despotism over nature that he did indoors over his court. these two tyrannies changed, softened even, over the long years of the reign. the most famous formal garden in europe, with its rigorous geometries of terraces and staircases, its regular parterre, gave way gradually to a greater informality of trees and fields, not merely because it was so expensive to keep up, but because a new attitude to nature was developing-- more sentimental, intimate, romantic. the mood of this moment is captured in a painting done not long after louis' death-- antoine watteau's departure from the isle of cythera. a group of courtiers prepares to leave the island of love. the painting signals the new attitude-- more informal, poetic, and often amorous. in this paradise of cythera, there are no restraints, and nature is free and unconstrained. it was a time in which the

the garden is the oldest japanese american garden in the united states. historical japanese- style garden, originally billed as a village for the 1894 midwinter international exposition. after the exposition, a japanese-american partner along with john mclaren converted the exhibition into a permanent park. he over saw the building as the teagarden and was the official caretaker from -- until 1925. he requested the people of japan 1000 flooring cherry trees to be imported and other plants and birds and goldfish. his family lived in the garden until 1942. when under executive order 906, he was forced to relocate to an internment camp with thousands of other japanese american families. this barden was renamed the oriental tea garden and it fell into a state of disrepair. in the 1950's, we had moved forward and the rec and park renamed it the japanese tea garden. the first concessionaire was jack -- who many here had the incredible opportunity to honor. and we're very incredibly pleased to be planning -- planting a cherry tree from the consul general. the ch

gardens across americ america". book and all proceeds go to the national park foundation. has an important message about the healthy foods we should eat as she continues against the epidemic of childhood obesity in this country. >> i am happy to be in the studio. never been here before. >> usually we have to go to your house. >> i came to you. thank you so much. i'm happy to be here. >> everybody is on their best behavior. >> they're well dressed too. kind of, sort of. >> even my producer has her pearls on today. she never wears pearls but it is a privilege to have you here and you have so much that's going on as always and this book is a passion of yours. >> it is absolutely and it turned out exactly as i envisioned. it's a beautiful book, wonderful pictures, it really tells the story of not just our garden but what folks are doing in communities all across this country. but it is definitely a passion. you know, getting our kids in this country eating healthy, helping families make good choices about how they eat a

because samurai's garden gave me the japanese culture and to a large extent samurai's garden taught me how to write. how to write in a way that i don't think i knew as well when i wrote women of the silk. it's processes like that is how i judge each book not so much is, that my best book? is that the best story? but it has to do with, what did i learn from writing that book. i have a friend who is a writer for 3 years trying to finish a novel. sent me an e mail. think when i first started writing we didn't have e mail. it's scary because you think you are getting e mail from a friend saying, i'm done and 2 days later you get another one and it says i'm trashing it. i'm thinking how can you write a book for 2 years and trash it. >> i put it in a box and stied it with a string and put it in a closet. that's the last i will see of it. i was thinking until she's gone and somebody gets it out and sells it for a million dollars. of course you are in the situation of you don't know what to say because we have all felt that way. there is a time in the writing process where you are saying, this

for fragrance in the garden, these are great for moon garden. if you are spending time outside. it is great. >> you buy several plants. you will have several more the neck year and several more the next year. >> another plant scomprks it doesn't look like -- this is geranium. this is great for shade. it acts as a ground cover and takes over nicely. bright green leaves. they tend to spread as well. i think seeds spread on them. >> the first year they will not do a whole lot. by the third year, you will be like, can i take some babies and move them around. this comes in white and pink and red and sends up a beautiful flower. >> it has a nice texture to it. these are bleeding hearts. this is a new variety. they come in white and pink. but how delicate those are. the shade garden. one issue people have some time is dry shade. this is one plant that will do fine. in a shady garden, it is also dry. so good water is the key to that. >> a lot of variety. >> there is a whole lot of clubs all over the way. deer do like it, though. >> this is a wonderful woodland plant. beautiful daily flo

samurai's garden. i started to get 30 e mails. they discovered through the website an e mail which would come directly tow me. i started to figure it out when all the questions were the same. they -- it was the questions which they had to write their essay on. one young woman wrote me and said, i don't know if i have time to read the book can you tell me who the samurai is and where the garredin is? [laughter]. i thought these kids are going to be okay. you know this is our generation coming up. i wrote her and said, you know, read the book. i think for me, because i think every book is a learning process for me. in terms of my culture because i am the first, i don't know about all that needs to be known of both being chinese and of course being japanese. i get a lot wrong. i cringe when i pronounce a japanese word because i know i'm not say itting correctly. i can get away with it. here i don't know, it's harder to get away with it in the bay area because we are such a melting pot. and so many people who know japanese where i don

we're looking at the 1890 madison square garden. this was located at the northeast corner of madison square. that is 26th street. this is madison avenue. the building stretched from fourth avenue. we call it park avenue south. it was designed by mckinley and white and it technically is the second madison square garden. this was the site in the 1850s for grand central depot, 1870s, no, this was after the 1850s, grand central depot before they moved to 42nd street. when grand central did move up to 42nd street they left behind the huge train shed. that train shed was used first by pt barn you mean for his hippo drome theater and can the equestrian society of new york took it over for their upscale horse show. the horses may have been upscale and the equestrians may have been upscale but a rusty old train shed is not upscale. they decided in the late 1880s to demolish that and hired mccumbee and white to do this multi-entertainment complex and the madison avenue end of it had several theaters including a 1,500 seat music hall the size

it we might have a green roof, but not a roof garden. this goes to the question of whether or not a roof garden 70 ft. up in the air is up for discussion. i want to get to the core of the commitment for the transit center, for the tower being the catalyst not only for the park, but by way of public access in the form of vernacular or wherever with public transit that is focused on transit, but also with the office. i believe this needs to be clarified and committed prior to this entire plan being approved because we are approving a plan with the centerpiece missing, that we will have a very hard time delivering what the public is expecting. i'm not sure if after my long presentation you have an answer, but we would look for you to have an understanding. >> thank you, commissioner. i appreciate those comments and i know several commissioners raised comments last time as well. which is why we prepared the language that joshua mentioned to strengthen the language in the plant -- in the plant to point out the need for public access to locati

this is garden. the gate to my mother's garden opened always trees flirt with shadows and the grass says my same. asleep in flowered boxes pay for rain. i open always the gate to my mother's garden. i will plant my sum in a clay pot an offering to jealous gods and stretch my arms like branches bearing fruft foregiveness. this was inspired by my mother who likes to sew. always had an old singer sewing machine and i bought her a new one but she never uses it. this is called cloth. her cracked lipped clenched to thread a dulling needle. the folds of my mother's dress are sewn with blody hands. tattered promises and button holes filled with bottomless dreams. her she was held up with borrowed strent. she asked, when will i have a home? one day i uttered. i will plant around my house she said. green ooh vy will grow and the cat will lay to the grass dreaming of snow. >> my mother's dress i folded in the suitcase. what slowly devour the fabric quietly releasing my mother's scent. caught in the decaying clo

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>> the garden is the way to begin the conversation.n changing my kids habits, if they are involved in the growing process of food and they get a sense of where it comes from and they are engaged, they tend to be excited about it. the garden is a really important catalyst for that discussion. we've had hundreds of kids working with us in the guard ton help plant and harvest. usually with the harvest we end with a vegetable feast. we've got kids who -- >> jon: the phrase vegetable feast -- >> it's a feast! >> jon: is there a cheese faucet for this vegetable feast? >> we've served everything from flat bread veggie pizza that many kids said is better than takeout. because the truth is that vegetables grown fresh taste better. i know you got those store bought tomatoes in the plastic tin that tasted like water. >> jon: or the boil in the bag in the crazy yellow sauce that she said is say butterrish substance. >> you cooked broccoli until you could cut wit a fork. it's not supposed to be that way. when you get kids engaged in pulling a tomat