Hello hello!<\/p>\n
It has been quite some time since I’ve written, hasn’t it? I wanted to check in and assure you that YES, I’m still alive. I’m writing on an eve of a pretty big change. The past few months of my silence here have been filled with much activity in life – and of course, in the garden.<\/p>\n
Life. Once again, re-potted.<\/strong><\/p>\n In 2003<\/strong>\u00a0I had moved into a condo in San Francisco with a tiny patio. I thought it looked barren. So I planted.<\/p>\n In 2005<\/strong> that tiny patio turned out to be too small for me. So, I moved to another condo with a larger patio. And I continued to plant.<\/p>\n In 2006<\/strong> that slightly larger patio turned out to be too small for me. So I moved into a house with a yard. Not just any house. I was able to acquire the home I grew up in. And I continued to plant.<\/p>\n In 2011<\/strong> I had to move away from that home<\/a>. It was heart wrenching. It felt as if I was shattered. But I still was thankful. And I continued to plant.<\/p>\n In 2012<\/strong> the plants were moved into a new location<\/a>. I really had no other choices at the time. In May of 2012 I had to get out because that place was a fucking piece of shit<\/a>. I moved into a temporary location. You can read about that move:\u00a0 part one here<\/a>. I still continued to plant. I was waiting for the greenhouse that I affectionately called “The Asylum” to open up. Once it did, that was move part two. So in August of 2012 I moved into The Asylum<\/a>. And there, I continued to plant.<\/p>\n In 2015<\/strong> I moved out of The Asylum<\/a>. Three years of commuting an average of 30+ minutes each way began to take a toll on me. The 2600+ square foot glass sanctuary was a beautiful and a mighty place to grow. I do miss that grow location. What was lacking was balance. I would only see the plants maybe once or twice a week. On bad traffic days, it would be an hour or more each way. Three years of this was wearing heavy on my soul. And my god, how I wanted to plant.<\/p>\n In 2016 <\/strong>I moved the plants to a local nursery in Pacifica. The new place was only five minutes away but I still had to drive. It was smaller and there was not much room to work with. The last move out of The Asylum took so much out of me… however I still wanted to plant.<\/p>\n All of this leading up to this point… I’m moving again.<\/strong><\/p>\n The plants have already moved. They are currently several hundred miles away, and I’ll be reunited with them soon. And I will plant.<\/p>\n Thank you all who have been following this crazy plant adventure of mine. I was recently going through some of my old writings from 2006 <\/strong>from when I first moved into my house.<\/strong> Yeah, a decade ago. I wanted to share a modified passage from one of my first online garden journals\/blogs with you here. It’s actually more for me. Just a reminder for me to enjoy this journey.<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Life’s hourglass has again turned and another season of change is upon me. I have lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and I have grown much here. And, at the speed of life, I have outgrown my space and now I will be moving to a new house creating new memories.<\/em><\/p>\n My garden is the living repository in which events of my life are recorded and tucked away. Each stem, each petal, and each leaf blade is a poem waiting to be discovered. One just has to listen. My garden is my journal – the collection of my memories that is open and read by all. Each plant is an icon of an event: they are the witnesses, they are the scribes, and they are the story tellers. Some plants have been passed on to me, and some I have only begun growing as I am leaving a legacy to pass on to future generations. With my garden expanding with so much vibrant growth, color, and botanical diversity – I realize perhaps that is only just a reflection of how much I have grown…<\/em><\/p>\n Quite simply – I have outgrew my container and the season of expanding is at hand. Sure it’s uncomfortable during this stage of moving – but with the lessons learned from the same situations in the past, it has only lead to one thing – more room to grow and expand.<\/em><\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Stay tuned. Hello hello! It has been quite some time since I’ve written, hasn’t it? I wanted to check in and assure you that YES, I’m still alive. I’m writing on an eve of a pretty big change. The past few months … Continue reading
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