Links that may or may not be related to gardens, food, travel, nature, or heterotopias and liminal spaces but probably are. Sources in parentheses.
essay: In Praise Of Not Knowing: The joy of choosing curiosity over certainty (Andrea Gibson/Things That Don’t Suck). Love her, love this. “‘Once we admit we are not sure where life is taking us, then we are ripe for transformation,’ wrote Mark Nepo. I now understand that to not know where I am going is my only true compass. … There is a big difference between a truth and an answer. When I land on a truth, I feel my being stretching like sunlight far beyond my physical body, and I experience the thoughts in my mind as passing clouds. And, when I find answers, they very often turn out to be just clouds.”
recipe: Buckwheat Crepes with Summer Vegetables (Jenny /Dinner: A Love Story @ Instagram).
short photo essay: Summer Inspiration: Native Plant Gardens (Nuts for Natives). That Eryngium (blue sea holly) in the gravel explains why my Eryngium dies every time: clay soil, too much water, not enough interminable sun and heat.
rankings: Rating the Birds in My Backyard by Tendency Toward Violence (luulapants/Tumblr). Keep scrolling beyond the original 10 for more miscreants.
interview: Digging Around with Tom Cox: The writer Tom Cox shares his garden story (Jo Thompson/The Gardening Mind). If you’ve been here a while, you know I love Tom Cox, which is what pushed me past a phrase Thompson always uses, one that just grates on my nerves, “When did gardening arrive for you?” Here Cox says, in answer to her question of whether to mow or not, “I think if it was up to me I’d just have one very small patch of lawn, in the middle of assorted organised and less organised wildness. Last time I embraced the whole wildflower meadow look at a rented house I was asked to drive back 270 miles from the place I’d relocated to in order to mow it, then when I did, I still got ‘mowing fee’ taken from my deposit. So… it’s a slightly sensitive area.” Also, “1920s pleasure garden” is a thing I now must explore.
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