Into the Garden

 

Olivia Laing believes gardening situates you in a different kind of time; the antithesis of the agitating present of social media. 

She writes, "Time becomes circular, not chronological; minutes stretch into hours; some actions don't bear fruit for decades. The gardener is not immune to attrition and loss, but is daily confronted with the ongoing good news of fecundity. A peony returns, alive pink shoots thrusting from bare soil. The fennel self-seeds; there is an abundance of cosmos out of of nowhere."

Greeks called linear time chronos. They plotted progress and cynical time as kairos. Kairos to Olivia Laing means the time of gardens and cycles. 

Birds, cicadas, and plants observe cycles of the season.

Find your garden stimulation.