Daily Musings — Rebecca Riyana Sang

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Scenes from life in my Napa Valley potager garden:

Not really sure what to do about the state of the world right now, but my lemon tree is going off, so I made the sweet lemon rolls from @nytimescooking. It’s the little things.

Poem for today. 💔 #poemsarespellsandwitchesarepoets

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Often when I’m in grief, and anger, and fear because there’s something legitimately messed up going on, trying to feel better is the last thing I want to do. It feels like an erasure of the accuracy of my feelings, the very fair, justifia

This is one of my favorite times of the year for my Mediterranean climate garden, when the rains are still abundant, and yet the sunshine is coming out more and more every day. Bulbs are showing signs of blossoming— at least, the hyacinths and

I planted these little violas from seed and I couldn’t be happier.

When I was a little girl, the first garden I remember was awash in happy little johnny jump-ups for half the year, seeming, to my open-hearted small self, to come from nowhere

So much gold in my garden, even in January.

1: Meyer lemon tree in a pot
2+3: ‘Julia Child’ rose
4: marigolds bravely overwintering themselves (frost be damned! we’re not going nowhere!)
5: a tiny crocus, ‘orange monarch.&rs

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Sometime in the days after the solstice, I start waking up early again— before dark, preferably. My mind is awake and full of ideas, and I’m dreaming about what to plant next in the garden, what to write, and what crafting and cooking pro

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I think of this time, when the rainy season has had a bit of a go interspersed with bouts of sunshine, as a time of endless little surprises around the garden.

Which daffodils will come up, oh, is that the little heart of a tiny nasturstium leaf co

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