John Wm Garand began scribbling well before he started first grade but what he envisioned as words, the world could not decipher. Five decades later, he moved to Zwerglipatch on Long Island, New York, and began a series that now numbers several dozen volumes. In "Personal Galaxy" he observes the present, recalls the past and speculates on the future from a vantage point starting in the Swiss Alps and settling comfortably back home among his friends, poetry, and numberless projects in his beloved quarter-acre garden at Zwerglipatch.