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Weeds
Monty Don calls any plant that isn’t where it should be a weed. Dandelions in the daffodil bed? Weed. Dandelions in the wildflower...
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2 days ago1 min read
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Do Less to Do More
I am going to be an internationally renowned physicist, author, biologist, powerlifting champion, and gardener with a flair for airplane...
kevinholochwostaut
Apr 92 min read
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Strength
I want to talk to you for a moment about my two cats. Felix is about two years old. He is incredibly athletic, with an easy five-foot...
kevinholochwostaut
Mar 282 min read
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Spring Cleaning
A few Daffodils... Just as the end of the gardening year is a good time to take stock, so too is the beginning of the gardening year. For...
kevinholochwostaut
Mar 122 min read
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Taking Time
If you planted a garden in a day, you wouldn’t know if you were successful for a year or more. If you wrote a novel today, and it was the...
kevinholochwostaut
Feb 282 min read
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Hibernation
Plants sleep, after a fashion. The sun sits too low in the sky, the ground grows hard and cold, and snow blankets bare twigs that...
kevinholochwostaut
Feb 151 min read
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Courage
Courage is a decision.
kevinholochwostaut
Oct 29, 20241 min read
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It’s Just Cancer
I want to talk to you today about an exceptional man. I don’t know him; I don’t know how much truth there is behind his words or how much...
kevinholochwostaut
Oct 23, 20243 min read
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Everything
Everything that we take for granted today was someone else’s dream yesterday. Plumbing. Electricity. Internet. Cars. Lattes. Indoor...
kevinholochwostaut
Oct 14, 20241 min read
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Unfortunate Truth
It is an unfortunate truth that, very often, we are the worst to the people who love us best. Our boss at work is rude or condescending;...
kevinholochwostaut
Oct 3, 20242 min read
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Take Your Time
There is something convenient about the pace of gardening. There is always work to do, but most of it is rarely urgent. Sure, there are...
kevinholochwostaut
Sep 28, 20242 min read
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Finding Focus...
Work is getting to me. I feel unappreciated and irrelevant. My friends don’t seem to particularly care about any of my thoughts, my...
kevinholochwostaut
Sep 25, 20241 min read
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Ride It Out
Gardening can teach us what is within and beyond our control. You can water during a drought, dig trenches in a deluge, and cut away the...
kevinholochwostaut
Sep 17, 20241 min read
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Taking Stock
I have said in the past that I don’t believe in "New Year’s resolutions." They are forced and timed in a way that sets most of us up for...
kevinholochwostaut
Sep 16, 20242 min read
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One Garden
Life life like a garden you get to tend once
kevinholochwostaut
Aug 25, 20241 min read
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Find Your Metaphorical Garden
I want to introduce a new series on this site, which will be about your metaphorical garden and my literal one. Sort of. I don’t mean I...
kevinholochwostaut
Aug 7, 20242 min read
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When Nobody Believes
You have exercised every day for a month, but you barely lose one pound. You lift every day for three months and can barely add a pound...
kevinholochwostaut
Jun 22, 20241 min read
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What's Your Percentage?
How much negativity in your feedback can you stand? 10%... 20%? 90%? Every writer needs negative criticism. We need to be told no. We...
kevinholochwostaut
Jun 13, 20242 min read
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Bibliotherapy part 2:
Do you want to reduce stress levels, lower heart rate, and ease tension in the muscles? Usually, this kind of claim is a start toa bad...
kevinholochwostaut
May 28, 20242 min read
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Be Motivated, or Be Manipulated
“People are not lazy, … they have goals which do not inspire them.” – Tony Robbins. I have never particularly subscribed to Tony Robbins...
kevinholochwostaut
May 19, 20241 min read
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