I enjoyed this article on "slow gardening" in the Times. It reported on a movement or style of gardening that focuses on perennials, serendipity, outsider art, re-purposing, informality, and a certain sort of "wabi-sabi" aesthetic.
I think this approach is very much a kindred what I see in a lot of the gardens of Brooklyn. I've always thought someone should really write a great field guide to the gardens of Brooklyn....!
The epic, which has all of life and then some, is strewn with lists
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*We all make lists, if only to buy bread and milk. But we tend to forget
how mythic and subversive, joyful and maddening, enchanting and sobering,
and utte...