For the gardener artist, the time between vision, execution, and result can feel painfully long and tenuous. But one day the image in your head of N. American native wisteria climbing up the handrail and over the kitchen window becomes a real work of art in the world. 🖤🤍💚
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We sat down to eat South African food together (what else when it’s the launch day for #itwasntroaringitwasweeping ?!), and I had a sudden horrible thought: 22 years ago, when @lisajobaker and Pete left Chicago for Ukraine, what if she hadn’t held on to our friendship? What if she hadn’t held on to me? I’m sure I’d be reading (and LOVING) this memoir, but I’d be on the outside looking in. Instead, because of the goodness of friendship and especially the goodness of friendship with this loving, loyal soul, I’ve been a witness these past five years to a great miracle of healing and transformation. Friends, I’m just warning you—you will want to binge this incredible book. Then—just like me—you’ll reread and savor it. It Wasn’t Roaring, It Was Weeping ❤️