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November 2019

November 02, 2019

Why We Should Learn to Love the Color Orange

Once upon a time, I would have insisted I did not like the color...

October 2019

October 19, 2019

Death, Enemies, and Garden Cleanup

How's that for a title? It's October at Maplehurst. Most of the leaves are...

October 12, 2019

A Gardener’s Religion

Is God in the clouds? Somewhere up above the clouds? Most of us live...

August 2019

August 03, 2019

How to Love the Difficult Months

I should call them the hydrangeas of astonishment. This summer hardly anyone visits us...

July 2019

July 06, 2019

Summer Religion

I do not love July, but I appreciate its drama. We wake to fog...

June 2019

June 29, 2019

The Peace We Do Not Look For

Around here, summer began with a long-anticipated trip followed by a week of jet-lag....

June 08, 2019

Searching for Glory

I live in the ordinary dull-gray world of sibling squabbles, broken air-conditioners, flower-eating garden...

May 2019

May 14, 2019

Don’t Forget To Gather Your Harvest

Spring is my personal harvest season. The plans I made last summer, the bulbs...

May 07, 2019

Abundant Life Among the Tangled Weeds

May is my favorite month in the garden. The late daffodils and tulips are...

April 2019

April 09, 2019

Hello, Easter, My Old Friend

There is nothing, nothing, nothing, until, suddenly, there is everything: a haze of green...

April 02, 2019

Practicing New Life in the Cruellest Month

The opening of T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" is often quoted this time...

March 2019

March 16, 2019

Don’t Seize the Day (Let the Day Seize You)

I began this "Cultivating Glory" column assuming I would lay out for you (and...

February 2019

February 16, 2019

Finding Hope in Life’s Bare Soil

I started my first tray of seeds yesterday: the heirloom viola known as 'Johnny...

February 05, 2019

Practicing Subtraction (In a World That Loves Addition)

As a gardener, I am currently in a season of subtraction. * We moved...