Severe weather is becoming more commonplace every year. Rain has become storms, storms have become supercells or tornadoes or hurricanes. Droughts have produced tinder for fires. Snows have become drifts, and cold snaps, deep freezes. Gardens have been devastated everywhere there are gardens.
Many people too, will have experienced devastation in their lives; loss upon loss upon loss.
Nature is the force behind the life we see in gardens, even if we as gardeners attempt to channel that life into veggies and herbs, trees and hedges, flowers and berries. It is the seed that roots in the tarmac, the flowers that burst forth in the desert after years of drought.
There is nothing easy about loss. It leaves lives permanently scarred, bearing a burden of grief. But if we find a way to tap into that force for life that is always present, we too can begin to re-emerge after the passing storm.
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