spirit
D E L I G H T
Discovery
Renewal
Connection
Belonging
The Spirit of Welcome is the Foundation of the Garden.
The Garden is a refuge, a shelter, a sanctuary; a place of artistic and spiritual beauty in which to rest, restore and re-create. Doing so allows us to remember who we are and who we are to each other. As we restore the Garden, we restore ourselves, individually and collectively.
It’s not about how long it takes to bring back the Garden, it’s about how we treat each other along the way.
Just as a person heals through community, a community heals through its people.
The Garden takes care of the community, and the community takes care of the Garden.
We are here to support on the level of the mind, heart and soul, but we are currently limited in how we can support on the material level.
However the Garden is asking for your attention, take the initiative to care for it accordingly. The Garden calls for each of our attention in different ways. Tend to it in the ways in which it calls for your care.
No one person leads this project. It is the spirit of the Garden which called each of us here, whether as visitors, volunteers or staff. It is the spirit which unites us, and to which we listen to as guide, that is primary. Doing so will both lead us and reveal how to come into closer connection with ourselves and each other, which is the harmony that allows this Garden to continue to heal and grow.
Mission:
Through the Garden’s historical presence and current renovation, we endeavor to create a community via offerings of rootedness and delight so that we the people, the garden itself, and the whole of life are restored and continuously renewed through connected relationship and joyous play.
Vision:
We are restoring the land, ponds, monuments, museum, diner, houses and buildings of the historic Petersen Rock Garden, while also reviving the cultural events which have gathered and inspired generations of people throughout its 91 years of operation as a roadside attraction, in order to continue to provide a place of community connection in Central Oregon.