Saying good-bye to our gardens in the fall is painful. But reshaping the landscape is similar to our writing and editing process. How?
Tag: gardening
A graceless garden dance and how the cosmos saved me
A jumbled wildflower garden, graceless ballet, and how I know I’m a Vulcan.
Bees and sneezes—It must be spring
Spring is the time when the bees are hyper, the pollen rules, and the allergies overtake the day. Why do we keep torturing ourselves over flowers?
Good enough is better than being a stubborn plant root
A lesson in learning that “good enough” is better than aiming for perfection in our writing.
Weeding our garden is like editing
Weeding our gardens is an ongoing chore, much like editing our work. We want our writing to be beautiful too, which forces us to kill our darlings in our stories.
Why we garden and why we love the work
Gardening can be an overwhelming process. We plant seeds, we weed, we rake, we clean, yet we continue to garden year after year. For gardeners, growing is a need, a longing. We garden because we have to. We love the work because we see what will be.