Gardening

  • Tulips

    How lovely the humans are as the tulips tip toe around them. Continue reading

  • Soul Skating

    I attacked the garden today. Actually, as usually happens, the garden attacked me—but my goodness I enjoyed the time out there with all that green and lovely stuff. Until about thirteen seconds ago, this post was going to be about… Continue reading

  • Be A Flower

    Have you noticed how flowers open in groups? How certain flowers within the group open first, followed closely by a new lot that, for whatever reason, begin to grow and change at a different time. But always they open as… Continue reading

  • Fairies

    Life is too short to dismiss the possibility of fairies. I’ve never seen one. And the imposter within me doesn’t even believe. But I’ll never stop looking. I’ll never stop pestering my children to look. And when we find such… Continue reading

  • Rain

    Maybe this whole time instead of running away from the rain we should have been running into it asking it questions, like: ‘If you can feed the green under my feet— what is it, rain, that you can do for me?’ Continue reading

  • The Story Of a Soul

    Sometimes my soul hangs off me in strips. It makes me think of the bark that peels from fat-trunked trees; old layers tearing off in shards— like maybe the tree might be crying. So that’s what a sad soul looks… Continue reading

  • Darling Day 22. The Garden

    Once upon a time, there was a garden. And this garden— Well. It was the most magnificent garden in all the land. Because, in this most darling of places, every day was a new season… And every day was more… Continue reading