Cultivating

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We are always creating and cultivating, even if we are unaware. What do you believe you are busiest creating? What are you truly cultivating? As a Southern journalist and writer, Dianne Poston Owens has learned something about nature and humans. In her essays she often explores people and the things they create. Always busy cultivating, people are at their best when they are cultivating what matters. But what matters? As an observer and recorder of people, places, and things, Owens wants to assure others that significance is found in the trivial, and the mundane matters. Cultivating, Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane, is a collection of short essays and poems intended for inspiration, encouragement and insight. Owens poses questions and offers photographs that allow readers to reflect and pause before heading full speed into the world around them. Through her essays Owens explores what we say, do and choose, and how that impacts what we cultivate each day.

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Author Biography

Dianne Poston Owens is a former newspaper reporter, columnist and editor, serving rural communities in South Carolina for more than 30 years. Though she wandered from her roots, she now lives in the same neck of the woods that her family has lived and died on for more than 250 years ... Along with two goats, at least four chickens, two cats and whatever else lives in the woods!

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Working to have "Lucky 2021"

Here it is January, once again. Out with the old, in with the new. What goes 'round comes 'round and so it is another January 6. Epiphany. The revealing. The uncovering. The manifestation. Here's to 2021, be it divine or otherwise and a cheer to the epiphanies we have as we trounce along through it. Here's to a year that will reveal itself day by day. Just so you know, I'm working to create my own "Lucky 2021." I'll let you know how that goes. In my recently published book (Cultivating, Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane) I offer an essay on being lucky, saying, with others, that luck favors the prepared. I offer a list of my top seven quotes about "luck." This excerpt from that essay offers a couple of those. For 2021 I advise carrying two umbrellas, one for you and one for the other guy; wearing a mask; saying your prayers; and becoming more prepared, and thereby, luckier.

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Cultivating

If you have your umbrella, it is less likely to rain than if you don’t. I believe that. My husband laughs at me because there are four umbrellas of various sizes and styles in my car. One for each potential passenger.

I believe luck favors the prepared. I also believe luck can run out but am trusting in God that it will not.

“Did you ever observe to whom accidents happen?” chemist Dr. Louis Pasteur is reported to have asked in 1854. He added, “In the fields of observation, fortune (chance in the vernacular of today) favors the prepared mind.” So there it is, scientifically supported. Staying prepared will, in all likelihood, give you better luck. Trusting in God, the great equalizer, will get you to the other side of any disaster.

Pasteur’s “prepared mind” quote has always inspired me. His contributions to science, technology, and medicine are astounding. He developed the method of pasteurization of wine and milk and the rabies vaccination. We’d be sicker without him.

He worked to make the world a safer, more prepared and therefore luckier place. He led the movement in the medical community to acknowledge and accept that germs exist.

Here, after the one attributed to Pasteur, are the other six of my top seven preparedness quotes.

6. “Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the rabbit.” R.E. Shay

5. “Diligence is the mother of good luck.” Benjamin Franklin

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Dianne Poston Owens

Cultivating

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Working to have "Lucky 2021"

Book Excerpt

Cultivating

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