LESSONS IN POLLINATION In honor of National Honeybee Day (August 17), here are a few observations I’ve gathered from beekeeping. On Intentionality. Bees don’t need a lot of care – in fact, you can mess things up by bothering them too much, or by rushing around. Each encounter needs to have a simple plan, light enough […]
Hold On, I’m Comin’ Earlier this month, when it was so cold we were counting our degrees on one hand, I tromped through the snowdrifts to bring some witch hazel twigs indoors. For a few weeks now, I’ve had a jar of bare branches sitting on my windowsill. Nothing brightens up a new apartment like […]
“Patience is also a form of action.” — Auguste Rodin (attr.) When I first had a patch of dirt of my own, I excitedly ordered a garden’s worth of peony plants. Visions of puffy pinkness filled my head. Several weeks later, a shoebox appeared at my doorstep. I opened it to […]