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July 2025 in the Brooks Garden

“We live in such a time now, when our collective actions over the next several years will decide whether earthly life will continue its descent into ecological ruin and death or flourish in beauty and diversity.” -Lyanda Lynn Haupt, Crow Planet: Essential Wisdom from the Urban Wilderness It’s not often that I walk the garden…

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April in the Brooks Garden

“But what happens if joy is not separate from pain? What if joy and pain are fundamentally tangled up with one another. Or even more to the point, what if joy is not only entangled with pain, or suffering, or sorrow, but is also what emerges from how we care for each other through those…

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March in the Brooks Garden

“To restore the land one must live and work in a place. The place will welcome whomever approaches it with respect and attention. To work in a place is to bond to a place: people work together in place, become a community, in time, grows a culture. To restore the wild is to restore culture.”…

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