something happens next

always. every time.

  • I recently discovered a collection of garden bloggers writing Saturday posts about six garden-related things. This week I thought I’d join in. Today the weather is perfect. It’s ninety degrees…

  • Years ago I walked the Camino Santiago. In the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela at the end, the priest prayed that “now that we no longer have the flechas amarillas,…

  • Last week a friend told me she’d decided to go ahead with a necessary but non-urgent surgery. She’d been putting it off because of the pandemic – but now? Better…

  • I’m about halfway through reading Discontent and Its Civilizations, by Mohsin Hamid, and already I want to go right out and read all the other books he mentions. Also, I…

  • This is one of the loveliest pieces of garden writing I’ve read in a while: https://www.gardenrant.com/2020/07/a-gentle-plea-for-chaos.html

  • https://longreads.com/2020/06/18/the-long-con-of-britishness/ This. This is great.