I nursed a tiny stem of a tarragon plant all winter. Somehow it hunkered down and made it, despite being pressed up against the cold window for months. I wish I could say the same for my parsley plant. The parsley needed a bath of sun for six hours a day. All I could...

The notion of a finish line in healing is a trap. There is actually no end to it. Nothing grows at the same rate and nothing matures under the same conditions. Knowing that the nature of healing is endless can also be a trap. Because imagine this being the thought...

The hardest job of the gardener is when too many sprouts come up. Here is the incredible pain of the Great Mama -- deciding who lives and who dies. Even in fertile times, life is built upon a cycle of creation, preservation, and destruction (a more palatable word for...