MUSINGS ON LIFE AND WRITING WITH SARAH BUCKLEITNER
For some reason--despite years and years of doing it and a year as the co-President of the Sustainable Foods club (and thus co-director of the campus community garden)--gardening has never felt in my comfort zone. The concept is simple: you stick plants in the ground. You give them sunlight and water. And if the conditions … Continue reading On Travails in the Garden
A couple of week ago I was driving to pick Jordan up from the university after he'd spent a long couple of days out in the field, and a thunderstorm broke right overtop me. In seconds, the highway had disappeared beneath a glistening sheath of water, and the windshield roared with rain. It was simultaneously … Continue reading June
(Warning--this is an excessively long ramble about gardens). I have a thing for failed gardens. We go way back. Every spring a fever of desire comes over me: the desire to plant seeds in the ground and watch them grow. Every spring, I start a garden. And every summer, I still fail to have homegrown … Continue reading On Plants and Persistence
Feathery Thoughts 