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Keep calm and garden on...

Ivy I “borrowed” from the King

Hello beautiful people,

Oh oh oh, there was the driving and the packing and the carrying and the driving and the unpacking and stacking of the stuff. Last week I started moving the contents of my shipping container from my old house to my current house.

It has been an anxiety riddled two weeks and it got the better of me. I feel bad, I do, but I didn’t have it in me to write (on top of my work writing and book writing). I hate things and it makes me wonder why I have so much of it. I genuinely do not get on well with the material world. I have been told that my soul does not fully inhabit my body. With part of me literally still up in the air I can’t quite get grounded.

That is why I garden. I have not much to offer you this week (which is unforgivable considering I skipped last week’s newsletter completely). Because I don’t want to be surrounded by boxes filled with things that belong to a person I no longer am, I have been hiding out in the garden. Where I can be me.

Every morning I wake up and think: I don’t want to be here. I don’t want to do this. Then I go to the toilet. On my way to the outhouse I check all the garden beds. Has anything sprouted? Are the seedlings growing. How many leaves do my pumpkin plants have? The joy of tiny green leaves sticking their heads above the ground “sparks joy” in a way stuff just never does. Time to lighten the load…

For now: Grow roots and bloom my lovelies!

FOR FUTURE REFERENCE

To read:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/36205145-around-the-world-in-80-trees

https://michaelpollan.com/books/the-botany-of-desire/

To watch:

Greenfinger

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0203540/

https://kissthegroundmovie.com/

To follow:

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Love Lee xxx