Status Updates From Things in Nature Merely Grow

Now that I have a garden, I've come to understand Trevor's point: gardening is good training for a novelist. One learns to be patient, one learns to make concessions, one learns to redefine one's visions and ambitions, and one learns to stop being a perfectionist. A garden is good training for life too.

“Aristóteles, tentando explicar o conceito de indivisibilidade, comparou um ponto na geometria com o agora no tempo. Quanto dura o agora: um minuto, uma hora, seis anos, metade de uma vida? Como se separa o agora de si mesmo, de modo que deixe de ser agora, para passar a ser agora e outrora, ou agora e mais tarde? Também o agora é uma situação-limite.”

You did everything you could to help James find his place in life, but he wanted to leave and one must let go—

Very few people, in my experience, have the moral courage to say what Christiane said to me on that day, precisely an hour and a half after a child’s death.