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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A Grieving Season

In Cultivating, Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane, I have an essay about grieving. Loss is loss. Death of a dream, a vision, an idea, or season and phase to life is sometimes as difficult to let go of as the beloved and cherish grandparent. After all, we nourish these ideas we have. We water and pet them and expect them to flourish. And then they don't. This world-wide COVID experience has left us reeling and grieving and adrift. This season of winter is also a type of grieving season; one where we turn inward and await the warmer spring to rescue us. The sun will shine. The storm will pass. In this grieving season may we also be busy creating new dreams and fleshing out new ideas. Cultivate goodness. Cultivate simplicity. Simply cultivate, even when grieving...

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Cultivating

This grief is hanging out after closing time. This grief keeps stealing away my breath.

I was resigned when Granddaddy George died. Cancer. Death was his only way to get better.

I was transported to some new place beyond anger when Granddaddy Jim died. Where was the miracle he was due?

Grandma Lee was less difficult to let go of. She always said this world was not her home. She slipped away into life everlasting.

Grandmamma Addie’s big ole’ heart gave out. She passed from here to there with her sister near her. She moved beyond us.

I have marked time by these four deaths. “That was just after he died.” “She was born three months after she died.”

Until now.

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Dianne Poston Owens

Cultivating

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A Grieving Season

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Cultivating

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