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Bee Grateful

April 5, 2013 By Susan Troccolo

“Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff.” Annie Dillard It was near this time five years ago that I received a gift I’ll never forget. First the backstory: March 6, 2008 was the date I got the diagnosis of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Aging: Gamesmanship and Strategy, Beyond Cancer, Birds and Bees, Friends, Life Tagged With: Bees, Colony Collapse Disorder, Gratitude, seed giveaway, Susan Campbell

Helping the New Gardener (who helped You?)

February 8, 2013 By Susan Troccolo

  “And where does satisfaction come from? I think it comes from contact with the materials And lives of this world, from the mutual dependence Of creatures upon one another, from fellow feeling.” Wendell Berry, The Gift of Good Land   There is something about a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Friends, Harvest, Life, Seasons in a Portland Garden Tagged With: Friends, Life, neighbors, new gardener, Seasons in a Portland Garden

Welcome

December 5, 2012 By Susan Troccolo

Welcome Readers, Thanks so much for stopping by. This site has been designed as a creative home away from home, online digs for work in progress, a place to play and a place to connect. Since bloggers blog at the pleasure of our readers, you wonder what life, change, and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Aging: Gamesmanship and Strategy, Beyond Cancer, Change, Friends, Grief and Loss, Harvest, Letters to Jenny, Life, Love, Marriage, Mentors, Seasons in a Portland Garden, The Writing Life, Travel, Volunteering, Wordseeds: Writers in the Garden

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