Garden State
Writer/Director Zach Braff delivers “an Oscar®-worthy performance” (CBS-TV Chicago) opposite a “wacky and endearing” (Newsweek) Natalie Portman in this quirky, coming-of-age comedy. Twentysomething, emotionally detached Andrew “Large” Largeman (Braff) hasn’t been home to New Jersey in nine years. Now, as Large attempts to re-connect with a variety of odd acquaintances – including his father – he decides to risk getting high on the most potent and unpredictable drug there is…life! Co-sta
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Gardening with Your Kids
Article by Organic Gardener
How to make gardening a family affairMake gardening something the whole family can enjoy!Let’s face it, if you are reading this article, you already know that gardening is fun and rewarding. Chances are, sometime in your life, someone who loved gardening showed you the ropes. Why not continue the tradition and help your family experience the joys of gardening? In addition to being fun and rewarding, gardening is a great way to spend “quality time” with your family, and it is a wholesome activity that children of all ages can enjoy.Three Generations of Gardening Tips From Our Family to Yours:Show them how much you enjoy gardening. Spend time in your garden. It is especially easy to stimulate a child’s interests when they see you having fun.Make gardening easy. Don’t expect a perfect garden. Allow your family to work at their own pace and within their attention spans and age range, especially children.Dig it! Kids love to dig. This is a great way to teach the basics while letting them play and just have fun.Let them play an active role in planning. Take your children to the local nursery and let them pick seeds or transplants to start their garden. Take your time and let them browse and enjoy all of the beautiful plants.Grow a theme garden. This is a great way to let your children use their imagination and express their creativity. The sky is the limit. Some great ideas are gardens that coincide with the holidays, alphabet gardens, a garden themed in their favorite colors, a sensory garden where you can experience different smells, tastes, textures and sights, or a “Freedom Garden”.Give children their own “kid sized” tools. They don’t have to be expensive. You can go with an old spoon and a bucket that you have around the house or you can venture down to the garden center and purchase garden tools made for children’s hands.Give them a space to call their own. It doesn’t have to be big. This will teach them ownership and responsibility, and your children will be able to take credit for their own little space.Get crafty! Press or dry flowers to make a beautiful arrangement, make potpourri, or make a pomander ball. Children love making things and will be amazed at the crafts and gifts that they can make from the garden.Grow a vegetable garden. Your children will be amazed that they can grow their own food. Be sure and use organic pesticides or fungicides that are non-toxic.Use gardening to brush up your children’s math and science skills. Let them count the seeds they are planting, or teach them how plants are living things. Not only will you capture their attention, you will be polishing their skills as you go.Have a contest. Kids love to be rewarded. Be sure to give each child a reward; the biggest tomato, the prettiest flower, or perhaps the best tasting herbs (a little Spray-N-Grow will help!)Don’t try to do it all! Pick a few of these tips that you know are best for your family and have fun with them. After all, gardening is meant to be fun and easy. And with a little help, something the whole family can enjoy.
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Zach Braff’s impressive directorial debut “Garden State” features an excellent soundtrack, a downright hilarious performance from Natalie Portman and a true message for anyone who feels like they’ve been sleepwalking through life. I left the theater feeling very glad that I’d seen it, for it spoke to me. Of course, like the characters in the film, now that I’ve faced some issues that were plaguing me, I’m at a loss as to what to do next.
But maybe that’s the point. “Garden State” merely shows its main character beginning to escape the issues that essentially imprison him because that’s all it really can show.
The four days that occur in the film merely jar Andrew, played by Braff, out of his complacent, medicated state – and, at its end, he’s only begun to deal with how to live his life. He’s started to be active, not passive. He’s choosing what he wants. But he’s unclear what to do next.
Of course, I’m talking about the film as though it were a psychological experiment. Because the movie made me think.
But the film’s greatest strengths are its just-quirky-enough characters, unlike the oddballs presented in other films like “Napoleon Dynamite.” The film also has a real sense of humor, an affection for its title location and a romance that feels more sweet, enlightening and comfortable – rather than irrationally passionate.
“Garden State” is an interesting feat, and I highly recommend a trip to the theater.
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|Blew the socks out of my expectations,
I reluctantly went to this movie with my wife. I was expecting the typical chick-flick format, plot, and lackluster acting. This movie certainly got me by surprise. From the first scene and on it get more and more interesting. It’s a movie about life’s decisions, about love, about friendship, about being truthful to yourself, about knowing what you really want and what you really need. The actors were very, very convincing. The setting and the props were magnificent. The story line was superb. The character development very solid.
And the movie is so human, so “tangible” it’s easy to relate to. Very good movie and would highly recommend. If you have not seen it, go now. You won’t regret it.
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