Essays from the Gardening Days

Some things are not understood all at once.

They are lived,
returned to,
and seen differently over time.

These essays were written that way.

Before each essay, there is a Garden Note.

Not to explain—
but to mark what was noticed
before words were formed.

There are ways of belonging
that do not ask you to become something else.

They do not arrive all at once.
They do not announce themselves.

But over time,
something in you stops searching
in the same way.

These are not instructions.

They are what remained
after paying attention.