Cultivating

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Synopsis

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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Author Insight

Photos and words to help us breathe

"Be still for a few moments of wonder each day and see what happens." That is the challenge by a friend this week. I was, and fear being again, a driven, self-absorbed, task-oriented, get the job done NOW kind of person. Job over people. Doing over being. But. But I wasn't gaining from life what I wanted. But I wasn't being who I was created to be. But I wasn't getting the desired results. The list goes on. I wanted peace in the place of anxiety. Be still and look for the wonder. That is what my books, Cultivating and Gathering, Homespun Essays from Beech Tree lane, are all about. These bite-sized essays, and the photos they are paired with, are meant to slow the reader. Reflect. Breathe. This weekend, look for the wonder that is right out your window. Blessings!

Book Excerpt

Cultivating

“It” is the moment when the coolness of the night that was slips away from the earth and into the air and all that is natural and real understands, without knowing why, that the night is gone and day has come.

“It” lasts only about as long as a firefly’s light. And if you’re not looking, you won’t see “it.” The sun breaks over and through and around and begins conducting the events of a new day.

The sky catches the sun and lets it paint with its embers. Even if there is fog or rain or wind, “it” happens. “It” always is.

“It” is the starting anew of the day. “It” is an every-day gift.

“Forget the former things; don’t dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?” (Isaiah 43: 18-19).

“The beginning is always today,” Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley said.

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Dianne Poston Owens

Cultivating

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Author Insight

Photos and words to help us breathe

Book Excerpt

Cultivating

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