What you experience instead is the fizzing aliveness of plants and animals, curiosity at how things naturally unfold, and magical combinations that we could never imagine nor contrive.
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Run your hand over the hydrangea head. Only when it sounds papery is it ready to pick
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The praying mantis stood up
and waved his thin front leg, searching for a foothold,
looking for a way out of this mess.
This summer my daughter and I read The Borrowers…
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It was driven by this idea of garden perfection, by fantasies of a garden that matched those I saw in magazines. The whole thing was actually driving me mad.
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The experience of post-natal depression has made life now with my children more poignant, more alive, more layered. It has complicated our relationships, and humbled me.
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