What is a Storygardenz
Storygardenz are tourist destinations, special places with a special voice, for enjoying quality time, in its original sense of dies vacantes (Lt.) empty days (our rarest comodity?), originating our own word vacation.
Storygardenz cannot be classified by any hotel category. They may be a luxurious castle or a simple cabin, a villa, a cultural centre, a hotel, a café, a B&B or even a special meeting room. But all are zones of clear hearing and fair sight and share qualities commonly associated with a garden: a space with a mythic perspective and a timeless refuge from bedlam.
The Storygardenz experience is enhanced, by the power of a special story (renowned like the Odyssey, or relatively unknown like the Legend of Faroaldo), which is not reduced to mere scripture but is still alive in the words and actions of living people. Often it can be experienced through the eyes of great creative people who have lived in those places (eg St. Francis, Wagner, Tolstoy, Ruskin).
The distinguishing Storygardenz product (if one must really use such a word !) is defined as a quality space, for a quality time, activated by a light-living story (stories), which needs to be metabolized.
For such a deceptively plain mix, a Storygardenz has been described as a
NO-THINK-NO-TANK: perhaps this is because the "Zed" suffix (representing "Void" or "Zero") is the tail that wags the dog, or perhaps it is because Storygardenz are founded on an idea of eco-productive inertia: that the more you take out, is the more you put in .... that restraint IS added value .... that the food of love is in the quality of receiving as much as in the quality of giving....
Thus Storygardenz - as NO-THINK-NO-TANKS - make ideal venues not only for the long-lost art of doing not very much..... (leisure, well-being, contemplative retreat) but also for any human activity requiring creativity, quality reception and a free port, away from propaganda and stultifying convention (brainstorming, creative thinking, forecasting, inventing, un-learning and re-learning, reunion and re-connecting, communicating, negotiating, mediating, appeasing, peace-making.....)
If you wish to find a Storygardenz to spend some quality time, go to DESTINATIONS