The Writing GardenMay 2026
The House, the Land, and the Living Garden
The house sits nestled alongside the cemetery, and the two have always been connected — inseparable — and have been for nearly 200 years.
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Six gardens. One threshold.
This is the written garden: plant lore, seasonal notes, poison histories, literary fragments, ritual practice, and curious things gathered at the threshold.
Fiction, manuscripts, field notes, and fragments from the writing life.
Books, folklore, source texts, essays, myths, and research.
Plant profiles, herbarium notes, growing observations, and seasonal records.
Baneful plant lore, poisonous beauty, cautionary histories, and dangerous gardens.
Ritual practice, candlework, dreamwork, and evening rites.
Oddities, found objects, keys, relics, natural specimens, and symbolic notes.
Recent Notes
The house sits nestled alongside the cemetery, and the two have always been connected — inseparable — and have been for nearly 200 years.
Continue Reading →Threshold. The word has followed me for years, but it began to feel less like an idea and more like a place once I came here.
Continue Reading →Artemisia vulgaris. Wild-growing & graveyard-gathered. A bitter herb of kitchens, sickrooms, thresholds, and waysides — half herb, half weed, hard to remove once it has decided to stay.
Continue Reading →Mugwort is easy to disregard at first. It's easier to see only what you already know how to name. Then, slowly, the quiet plants start to show themselves — and Mugwort is the quiet prince of those places where the edges start to fray.
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