World by Autumn

It was me. I did myself dirty. The photo below captures the shame. So I spent hours this late winter and early spring weeding the entire area around my raised beds. When I say weeding, I mean more than weeding. Cleaning - picking out pine needles and cones, getting every last leaf, weed, weird stick, imperfection - everything. Look how amazing: Look at that weed free perfection. I did that (to quote the crass stickers of whatever sitting president that show up on gas pu

I am a lot of things. I am spouse, a parent, a pet keeper, a friend, a student, a gardener, a gamer, a streamer, a cook, a wanderer, a creative, a writer, a change addict, a neurodivergent person, a big person, a coffee drinker, a teetotaler, a mystic, a neighbor, a driver, a worker, a thinker, a sugar addict, a diplomat, a Washingtonian, a US citizen, an overachiever, a maximalist, a fierce competitor - this is not a complete list. It never is, like everyone I am so many