I have been thinking of you, and hoping you were well—it’s what brought me back to Substack this week after some time away. In case it helps, one of my comfort books is a collection of gardening essays (“Green Thoughts,” by Eleanor Perenyi). The unrelenting cycles of nature are always good for grounding, and Perenyi’s tone has an unsenti…
I have been thinking of you, and hoping you were well—it’s what brought me back to Substack this week after some time away. In case it helps, one of my comfort books is a collection of gardening essays (“Green Thoughts,” by Eleanor Perenyi). The unrelenting cycles of nature are always good for grounding, and Perenyi’s tone has an unsentimental practicality that I find bracing and comforting at the same time. Maybe this is my inner New Englander responding, but the book may speak to you too. Take care of yourself right now.
Thank you so much, Judith, for your kindness and for the book rec. Essay collections work well right now and i could use a tone that Is both bracing and comforting. Yesterday i weeded for three hours, a very literal form of grounding myself.
I have been thinking of you, and hoping you were well—it’s what brought me back to Substack this week after some time away. In case it helps, one of my comfort books is a collection of gardening essays (“Green Thoughts,” by Eleanor Perenyi). The unrelenting cycles of nature are always good for grounding, and Perenyi’s tone has an unsentimental practicality that I find bracing and comforting at the same time. Maybe this is my inner New Englander responding, but the book may speak to you too. Take care of yourself right now.
Thank you so much, Judith, for your kindness and for the book rec. Essay collections work well right now and i could use a tone that Is both bracing and comforting. Yesterday i weeded for three hours, a very literal form of grounding myself.