| # | Name | Comments |
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| 901 | Mike Kapsa | |
| 902 | Anonymous | As a Botanist and Landscape Design professional I urge you to NOT close the National Cathedral greenhouse. It is a great asset and should be continue. The Landscape Technology program of Montgomery College schedules frequent field trips to the cathedral to visit both the gardens and the greenhouse. Please preserve it! |
| 903 | Anonymous | Of course it needs spiffing up, but it is one of the few benefits to members of the former NCA. SK |
| 904 | Anonymous | The Greenhouse, like many of the Cathedral's activities over the decades, provides a place where the non-religious and the religious can meet and where the religious can inspire the non-religious. If God lives, then he lives as well outside a church building as within such a building. The Greenhouse -- as with the Cathedral gardens -- gives living reality to the presence of God's spirit among us -- outside of a church building.
Why deny a place for those who find God in nature to meet with like-minded folk -- as does the Greenhouse? When a place is already given for the spirit of God to draw in the visitors or the neighbors, as with the Greenhouse, then it should be allowed to continue. |
| 905 | Edmund Preston | |
| 906 | Margaret Callahan | |
| 907 | Helle Maasbol | |
| 908 | Linda Komes | I am deeply saddened and disappointed over the decision to close the cathedral greenhouse. The greenhouse serves the broader NW Dc area, not just Cleveland Park and Chevy Chase and is an institution.
My understanding is that the Greenhouse operation is not losing money, and is solvent.
I urge you to reconsider the impact this decision will make on the very Community the National Cathedral's mission is to serve.
Please save the Greenhouse! |
| 909 | Eric T. Anderson | Hello
I am a horticulturist from North San Deigo County in California operating a 51 year foliage nursery.. With the harsh winters here in DC plants and people need a green safe place of retreat and protection. If I can maintain commerically the 1st cut carnation greenhouse in my county, you must find a way to continue this gem in our nation's capitol |
| 910 | Marguerite Anderson, Kenwood Garden Club | Please commit to the greenhouse for the long term future, for all the children to come, so they can learn about the precious gifts of nature, creation, the environment. It is precious to all peoples, in all places and at all times and will continue to be forever. |
| 911 | Barbara L. Franklin | |
| 912 | Wilson Ricks | Our family has always loved the greenhouse; especially my mom, and I really hope it can be kept |
| 913 | Patrick Delaney | Please save this greenhouse. Sometimes decisions have to be made, not based on the present moment, but on the predictable future. I see a very near future where this greenhouse is needed. |
| 914 | Mary Alice Garber | |
| 915 | Donna Osthaus | |
| 916 | James A. Cress | God is great. God is green!
God's very first command Adam/Eve was to nurture and preserve the earth, the animals, the plants, the environment (Genesis 1:26 - Chapter 2). |
| 917 | don symington | |
| 918 | Carolyn Long | I will not renew my membership in the Cathedral Society if the greenhouse is closed. |
| 919 | Margo Silberstein | |
| 920 | Elba Morales | As a neighbor who do not owns a car but instead walks and uses public transportation, this is the place of choice to get our household potted plants and gifts.
Please keep it open. |
| 921 | Gloria Carl | Please save the greenhouse. It adds so much the the Cathedral grounds experience. |
| 922 | Anonymous | Please do not close the greenhouse. I have only visited a couple of times but very much enjoyed browsing through the greenhouse and the neat things the greenhouse carried that you don't find at every other garden nursery around. There is plenty of concrete buildings and parkinglots around and not enough open space especially in the city. |
| 923 | Sharon Belliveau | Please keep the greenhouse! It is a treasure that the Cathedral provides to our community. |
| 924 | James G. Cooley | |
| 925 | Lisa Richart | |
| 926 | Georgia stockdale | Closing the cathedral greenhouse is such a bad idea on so many levels. Least of which is the fact that greenhouses in the middle ages were part of the cathedral grounds. Is there no concern for historical reference? In a society that is moving toward "green" in all aspects of life, why would you choose to close one of the greenest aspects of the cathedral grounds? It is beyond my comprehension and a sad, misguided step. |
| 927 | Elizabeth Harralson | At a time when there is renewed emphasis on growing our own food locally, gardening for restoring spiritual and physical health, and stewardship of the earth's resources, it seems illogical to destroy this quite remarkable resource. |
| 928 | Mary Ann Schaefer | I've gone to the greenhouse for years--it is my favorite place to buy herbs and plants. Please don't close it!! |
| 929 | Mischa Schuler | This place has been incredibly precious to me since I was a youngster. It's closing would indicate a chance in honoring the earth as a part of our faith. Please reconsider! |
| 930 | Kaki Blevins | |
| 931 | Milt Shapiro | |
| 932 | Anonymous | I'm a college student and fully support all efforts to save this precious D.C. sanctuary. |
| 933 | Anonymous | |
| 934 | Anonymous | |
| 935 | Hally Wohandler | |
| 936 | natalia | |
| 937 | Eric S. Kravetz | |
| 938 | Ann Steuart | The greenhouse is a local treasure, and an historical landmark within the Cathedral Close, integral to the Cathedral's landscape history. Closing the Greenhouse would be a travesty to the current community and the significant history of the site. |
| 939 | lilly gray rubin | Dear Right Reverend Cahne and Dean Lloyd;
Please protect one of our great garden treasures; truly a missive from a time when values were not subjects for discussion, just givens which were manifested at many turns. |
| 940 | Anonymous | I cannot believe a church as famous and important as yours would even consider closing a greenhouse in this day and age. It is a symbol to the community near and far on how people should live. And post 9/11 is hooey - today's concern is improving the environment - and how can people do that better than raising plants? House plants to clean the indoor air, herbs and vegetables for food, and other plants to improve the air and help maintain the beauty of this earth. You should be a good example and encourage the planting of more trees and plants, not the bad one you propose to be. Keep the greenhouse open. |
| 941 | Hampden Smith | My wife and I are supporting dear friends who are deeply concerned regarding this issue. |
| 942 | Allen Stairs | One is inclined to ask: what would Jesus do? |
| 943 | Cathrine Nelson | The Greenhouse represents a little Wabi-Sabi in this all too perfect part of the world. |
| 944 | The Mystery of 'Wabi Sabi'.. | Wabi-Sabi? This is un-American. Or is it? I believe there exists in all of us a longing for something deeper than the whitest teeth, sparkling floors, and eight cylinders. What if we could learn to be content with our lives, exactly as they are today? It's a lofty thought...but one that's certainly worth entertaining. There's an aching poetry in things that carry this patina, and it transcends the Japanese. We Americans are ineffably drawn to old European towns with their crooked cobblestone streets and chipping plaster, to places battle scarred with history much deeper than our own. We seek sabi in antiques and even try to manufacture it in distressed furnishings. True sabi cannot be acquired, however. It is a gift of time. Pared down to its barest essence, wabi-sabi is the Japanese art of finding beauty in imperfection and profundity in nature, of accepting the natural cycle of growth, decay, and death. It's simple, slow, and uncluttered-and it reveres authenticity above all. Wabi-sabi is flea markets, not warehouse stores; aged wood, not Pergo; rice paper, not glass. It celebrates cracks and crevices and all the other marks that time, weather, and loving use leave behind. It reminds us that we are all but transient beings on this planet-that our bodies as well as the material world around us are in the process of returning to the dust from which we came. Through wabi-sabi, we learn to embrace liver spots, rust, and frayed edges, and the march of time they represent.
Wabi-sabi is underplayed and modest, the kind of quiet, undeclared beauty that waits patiently to be discovered. It's a fragmentary glimpse: the branch representing the entire tree, shoji screens filtering the sun, the moon 90 percent obscured behind a ribbon of cloud. It's a richly mellow beauty that's striking but not obvious, that you can imagine having around you for a long, long time-Katherine Hepburn versus Marilyn Monroe. For the Japanese, it's the difference between kirei-merely "pretty"-and omoshiroi, the interestingness that kicks something into the realm of beautiful. (Omoshiroi literally means "white faced," but its meanings range from fascinating to fantastic.) It's the peace found in a moss garden, the musty smell of geraniums, the astringent taste of powdered green tea. My favorite Japanese phrase for describing wabi-sabi is "natsukashii furusato," or an old memory of my hometown. (This is a prevalent mind-set in Japan these days, as people born in major urban areas such as Tokyo and Osaka wax nostalgic over grandparents' country houses that perhaps never were. They can even "rent" grandparents who live in prototypical country houses and spend the weekend there.)...Worth thinking about! The Greenhouse was called "Shabby" and "Tacky" by some on the Ground Committee-isn't it just that this Japanese concept of Wabi-Sabi was unappreciated. It would seem that 940 people on this petition do appreciate and understand it. |
| 945 | Tamara Schwartzentruber | |
| 946 | Wesley Hallman | |
| 947 | Marion Story | Please don't close this national treasure!! |
| 948 | Kate S. Woodward | Since moving to DC nearly 10 years ago, I have made regular purchases at all of the retail concerns on the Cathedral grounds. To me and, I am sure, to many others the greenhouse is as much a part of the National Cathedral as the herb cottage and the Cathedral shop. Surely the operational costs of maintaining the greenhouse would not be an issue if poor financial decisions had not been made elsewhere in the total organization. |
| 949 | Kathy Bumpass | Please keep the greenhouse open. A greenhouse is positive and necessary now for many reasons, most of all - demonstration and influence. |
| 950 | Lucy Mencia, AIA | Please save the greenhouse. It is an integral part of the cathedral experience. Earth, flowers and plants express the beauty of God's creations. Please save the greenhouse. |