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Gardening as a subversive act. In service of reparative relationships.
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Uprooting a new year
I had planned to spend the last day of the year in the garden. Planting the last bulbs, sowing the first seeds. I woke up dreaming of the metaphors it would bring me. Instead, I mess about with my children. Dawdle distractedly to the sound of an audiobook. Clear a window of…
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Death, Love, Samhain
If the sun never sets on the British Empire, let me be of the realms of the moon. Nothing new has been said under the sun, but when I speak I find my…
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Nov 3, 2021
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Lughnasadh
I try to understand the wound. What was the cause of the land and people’s severing? Why did those who lived here begin to feel it was not enough, to…
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Aug 1, 2021
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Before Beltane
It is May. The forerunner of summer. I walk round the garden under leaden skies, braced against the wind. There was no frost last night thanks to the…
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May 3, 2021
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Ostara
Yesterday was the spring equinox. Today things have already teetered off kilter, each day visibly longer than the night past. The race is on to sow…
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Mar 21, 2021
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Imbolc
I wake on the last day of January with a strong urge to tidy the house. With all four of us at home, all the time, the ebb and flow of our days leave…
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Feb 1, 2021
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Yuletide
Last night I dreamt of my garden. It was winter & I was surrounded by fresh greens: cabbages & lettuce, the name lollo rosso rolling around my mind. An…
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Dec 23, 2020
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The darkest day
The thing about living in a small community is the way in which you are fully seen. I remember the painful vulnerability of this; the desire to cloak…
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Dec 21, 2020
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