Transplanting, growing and thriving: some thoughts on success

I planted raspberry canes in one of the six beds over in my mother in-law’s yard our first summer here (has it really been three years?) but as with everything over there, they didn’t get enough sun. This spring I dug them up and moved them to a very sunny spot on the side of [...]

How does your garden grow

Oh, my. Summer is at the gate, straining at her lead and ready to gallop. So much growth happening so fast and always the sense that I can’t ever catch up. Clearly I’m still too fragmented in my efforts. Two years ago I began to envision work that allows me to be at home, pay [...]

Weeding out the hope

I’m currently enjoying the benefits of having so little work last fall that I was able to clean up and amend the garden beds to ready them for spring planting. Sure, back then I didn’t think of it as a benefit, and I thought so even less when we ran out of money a couple [...]

I’ll fly away

I felt my life wasting away in a grinding fluorescent coma. Parked in a most decidedly not ergonomic chair, at a too-high desk, in front of a computer monitor for eight hours a day, five days a week, working for a company I cared less and less about with every bad decision they made. I [...]

Take me to the river

I try to take the long view. All the headlong rushing towards the next thing makes me so very tired, but a few moments rocking on the front porch, watching the shadows lengthen with the setting sun turns me around to face myself. That’s where all the rushing originates, inside of me, so it’s on [...]

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