This weekend, I lost myself in two favorite pastimes: woodworking and gardening. Both activities are a balm, lifting me out of whatever mental morass I'm stuck in and setting me in a flow, bordering on fixation. Time flies equally when I'm playing with a 20 V Max Lithium Ion cordless impact driver or a shovel. … Continue reading Wood and Flowers
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A Constant Gardener

Nashville may be It City with a population near a million, but sometimes it still feels like a small town. Like the other day, when I caught up with my landscape gardening friend Peter Anderson. I met Peter about a decade ago, and I still credit/blame him with sending me down my "path of construction." … Continue reading A Constant Gardener
This is Just to Say: Homage to William Carlos Williams

I should have weeded the tomatoes that volunteered in the front yard and which are probably suffocating the laurels Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so warm