If you were wondering how far I could take the “gardening as a metaphor for life and writing” thing, the answer is just a bit farther! Check out my latest post on Medium: Walking Away From Your Story
This weekend brought rare fall sunshine to the Pacific Northwest, so I took a break from editing to do some fall clean-up in the garden. Pruners in hand, I headed to a shrub border in my yard and started cutting things back branch by branch. Before too long, I’d finished deadheading my favorite lace-cap hydrangea and went to dump my bucket in the compost. When I returned, a single faded bloom peeked out at me from the center of the bush, right at eye level. How had I missed something so obvious, something that had been right in front of me as I pruned and yet remained unseen? (read more…)
