As I write this, my garden is in an iris frenzy. Irises in the garden do what Gertrude Jekyll, the...
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Emily L. Quint Freeman is the author of the memoir, Failure to Appear, Resistance, Identity and Loss
(Blue Beacon Books) and articles appearing in digital magazines including Salon, GO, The Gay & Lesbian Review, Open Democracy, and Narratively. She has been interviewed on CNN Evening News, NPR’s All Things Considered, Real Networks, and numerous other media outlets. Her author website: www.emilyqfreeman.com.
Spring is an unfolding, one delicate, ephemeral bloom after another. Each day, something fades, something emerges. I bring a few...
Dedicated to the freedom-loving people of Ukraine In March 1978, I had enough of shared living, finally admitting the obvious—I...
Decades ago, I signed up for a nature trip to the Farallons, a chain of rocky offshore islands and sea...
Garden-making is a joy, essential to my physical and mental well-being. It’s well-documented how nature and plants can revive and...
Winter can seem interminable, bare, depressing, harsh, bereft of daylight. Inspired by great English and Japanese garden-makers, I decided to...
Many gardens feature rocks in many ways, whether it’s pebbles, small stones or even large stones or boulders. Rocks provide...
In late November, I’d had enough of my profession—the pointless disputes, the dull meetings, the stress of monthly results, everything....
Humanity has reached a point of no return, if we are to protect the Earth’s climate and all who live...
In an unexpected summer storm, I dashed underneath an old valley oak and looked up at its thick, furrowed trunk...
I’m a lifetime lover of autumn, the fiery fall colours that herald the season of leaf drop, seed heads, berries...
The Western world is fixated upon progress, perfection, conformity and achievement, at the expense of enjoying ourselves, laughing at ourselves...
The Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku, literally translated as “forest bath,” means full sensory immersion in the beauty and wonder of...
Modern medicine has its roots in what humans learned over thousands of years about the medicinal benefits of plants. That...
After the morning fog dissipates, it’s a sunny, fresh day on my patch of Eden. I harvest my first pumpkin...
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