Making Mulch in the Garden
And other fall to-dos
Fall chores might be my favorite. This work of harvesting the last of the summer crop, adding to the seeds we’ll plant next year, and making the mulch we’ll use to prepare the beds for winter puts our hands in the earth and brings our senses closer to nature.
I think I enjoy the smell of the dirt being washed from my tools as I check, clean and polish them at the end of the day the most. These few tools have been with me for a long time and I’ve rarely needed to reach for others.
When projects call for bigger tools, it is time to ask for help. Call in more hands and with them comes wisdom, experience, and tools.
The Gardens’ 2023 Project, Her Story is a big goal and will take many hands. It will require the wisdom, experience and tools those hands bring with them to passions such as this: to put a Journal and a Pen into the hands of 100,000 women from around the world in 2023.
We know the power of Her Story.  When shared, women come to common ground and greater appreciation of each person's experience, expanding our world view, and leading to each one becoming a true ambassador for their lives, experiences, and spaces, in the world. This leads to true realization of voice, agency and leadership. ~ Susan Brearley, Garden Founder.
We invite you to join us as we expand into this next phase of growth. It’s time to clean and inspect the tools, prepare the beds and make the mulch that will nourish the seeds we are planting for the future, and we could use some extra hands.
On December 1st at 7:00 PM Eastern, the Garden will host a live zoom gathering to discuss The Talk: Delicate Conversations by Families of Color. This important topic is a current open Call for Submissions, for the forthcoming anthology. Men and Women are welcome to join this event. Tickets are available here. The Garden will also be hosting workshops in December to assist contributors with their submissions.
Silent, hosted and non-hosted write-ins are available in the Garden for anyone needing a scheduled time to write. Many are focused on completing the 50,000 word goal for NaNoWriMo, or working on a poetry chapbook with Garden Poet Laureate,
for NaPoWriMo. Visit Events in the Garden Menu for gathering times.
Now that NaNoWriMo & NaPoWriMo are coming to an end, what will you do with your manuscript? Consider the Path to Publishing course to answer the questions you have when it comes to publishing. In her course,
shares her decades of publishing expertise to help you pick the right path for you.
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The Talk, The Walk - Every time you leave home words to live by.Collections, Anthologies and Books
Different Sides of the Same Coin: A Collection of Poems by sisters Chyrel J. Jackson and Lyris D Wallace is available on Amazon Kindle and in paperback.
No Visible Injuries, non-fiction memoir by Sylvia Clare is available on Amazon Kindle.
Latkes for Santa Claus by Janie Emaus is available as a hardcover book and on Amazon Kindle.
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