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May Sarton on Writing, Gardening, and the Importance of Patience Over Will in Creative Work

The matter that we know — the stuff we can see and touch — comprises a mere 5% of the universe. All the rest is dark matter. We can’t see it, can’t touch it, can’t discern what it is made of or how it came to be.

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Allen Bingham Meanderings April 24, 2023 1 Minute

Rebecca Solnit on Writing, Gardening, and the Life of the Mind

This is the great and terrifying truth about the creative life: Anything we make — all this longing for beauty and meaning, all these reckonings and raptures, these most passionate and personal fragments of being — is just a tiny seed compacting everything we are, blown into the wind that is the

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Allen Bingham Meanderings June 27, 2022 1 Minute

200 Years of Great Writers and Artists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Gardening

Something happens when you are in a garden, when you garden — something beyond the tactile reminder that, in the history of life on Earth, without flowers, there would be no us.

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Allen Bingham Meanderings May 9, 2022 1 Minute

The Book of Delights: Poet and Gardener Ross Gay’s Yearlong Experiment in Willful Gladness

“The high value put upon every minute of time, the idea of hurry-hurry as the most important objective of living, is unquestionably the most dangerous enemy of joy,” Hermann Hesse wrote at the dawn of the twentieth century in trying to course-correct the budding consumerist conscience toward the

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Allen Bingham Meanderings April 20, 2022 1 Minute

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