Tae Yun Kim’s Life Wisdom in the Garden

Winter Glory

I love winter.  Sure, it’s cold, it rains a lot and it’s foggy and dreary.  There is a time and season for everything, Dr.  Tae Yun Kim emphasizes, there is a time to plough the land, plant the seed, tend to the garden, bring in the harvest.  And time to... read more

Winter Beauty in the Garden

Winter in Northern California is very 2-faced.  It can be beautiful sunshiny one day, and torrential rains the next.  But to me, it’s all beautiful, I know we need the rains, and the rains bring new growth – and this year, way ahead of time, the hills area... read more

Outdoor beauty in Korea

I have had the pleasure and privilege to travel with Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim and some of her Jung Suwon warriors to Korea recently.  Wonderful times! Dr. Tae Yun Kim always pointed out the breath-taking beauty of the Korean landscape, and of how beautifully the... read more

Wake up to the little miracles around you!

One of my very favorite sayings of Dr. Tae Yun Kim is this: “Wake up to the little miracles around you right now and appreciate the power of the universal life force!  This is your power we are talking about, and your intelligence.” Nowhere else is this as... read more

Beauty in the mid-summer garden

I was lucky to get another invitation to enjoy Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim’s garden.  It is such a wonderful, relaxing, most beautiful peaceful place.  Great Grandmaster Tae Yun Kim teaches that each being has it’s own beauty, and each flower –... read more

Little treasures in the garden

Although Dr. Tae Yun Kim’s garden abounds with roses (more than 1,500 bushes to be exact), star-gazer lilies, and other well known and highly cultivated garden plants, there are also other gems that are a delight for eye, nose, and spirit. These little garden... read more

The Fruits of labor in the garden

It seemed like yesterday that Dr. Tae Yun Kim walked me through her garden, and stopped at the plum-tree with the miniature plums on it, the ones I couldn’t see.  Those: Yesterday, Dr. Dr. Tae Yun Kim once again showed me that same tree.  But what a difference! ... read more

Life can be a bed of roses

Today, Dr. Tae Yun Kim invited me into her garden.  It is absolutely beautiful any time of year, but especially during summer, when the thousands (yes, that’s right, thousands) of roses in all kinds of colors and sizes) are in full bloom and the entire garden... read more

First harvest in the garden!

A couple of days ago a bunch of us Jung Suwon warriors got a special treat: we were invited into  Dr. Tae Yun Kim’s garden, for the first harvest of the season:  Cherries! Can you see the Jung Suwon warrior in the picture below? Dr. Tae Yun Kim had told us the... read more