Garden

How to live after having eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil

December 12, 2023

This essay explores my personal mental and emotional overwhelm due to the intake and processing of information and knowledge and the ongoing disruptions and changes to our society and culture. Ultimately, I’m seeking to discover how I’m supposed to live open-hearted and open-minded while being committed to intellectual expansion. The ache, the grief, the worry, the fear, and the disorientation that comes with knowledge and change are hard to manage and/or release.

What is a life if not a collection of days?

September 1, 2022

Focused attention and a narrowed scope seems like a prerequisite for achieving noteworthy success.I lack a discrete and narrowed focus of interest and I feel this will prevent me from achieving noteworthy levels of success.

Hello Larix buds

April 28, 2021

I have this insatiable desire to know the names of the trees, the plants and the birds. What a delight it would be to spend my days identifying, loving, and nurturing living things.

A summer garden

August 14, 2020

Life can be disappointing, difficult, and painful. But also beautiful, joyful, and hopeful. Like my garden. Like this summer.

And then we went home (week six)

April 27, 2020

Nova Scotia offered space, fresh air and forest; and unprecedented opportunity to be together as a a family. But Montreal is home and it's time for us to return.