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Conception (The Diary of a Gardener-January)
On winter, waiting, and the beginning that comes before spring
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The sailboat. {a confession of sorts.}
Oct 13, 2025
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The Big Sad.
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Tradwives {an essay about tending what you can reach.}
Nov 20, 2025
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Tend the Soil. {a human response/essay.}
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Daily Bread.
A simple record of a winter morning shaped by labor, attention, and the daily bread that arrives whether we notice it or not.
Jan 6
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The Big Sad.
And on days like today, when the sun shines without warmth, when the light lies about what it can give, the work is not fixing or saving or…
Jan 2
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The Hill I'll Die On (on ordinary faith in a fear-formed world)
This steadiness requires the courage to remain awake in my own life. To fully inhabit my body and my place on the earth.
Dec 27, 2025
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Momentum is a Lie. {essay}
A hard-learned truth about gardens and hearts written on the darkest day of the year.
Dec 22, 2025
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Please stop saying, "I did a thing."
We are all negotiating the awkward vulnerability of sharing our work and our lives in a world already swollen with voices, opinions, products, and…
Dec 19, 2025
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The Submission to Slow {essay}
Over and over, the work insists that speed costs more than it saves. I keep coming back to it because something in me needs to be trained by the…
Dec 15, 2025
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Unwinding. {prose}
I thought I might go ask the flower how to be a flower, or ask my cow how she decided she would live her life.
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