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

What are you cultivating?

It's garden time! A daughter of mine planted tomato plants earlier this spring and is now enjoying BLTs with her fresh tomatoes. What are you cultivating? She also enjoys planting, and eating, peppers. The hotter the better. I also know of the thrill of planting and reaping. However, I was surprised she picked up the seeds and sowed them. I cultivated a cultivator! No wonder, we do come from a long line of farmers. And though we don't farm in the traditional sense, we do love to coax life from the soil. What are you cultivating? It doesn't have to be a crop. It can be good friendships and happy memories. Be assured though, with or without thought, we are cultivating!, just as Cultivating, Homespun Essays from Beech Tree Lane, explains.

Book Excerpt

Cultivating

“Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.” Crucial words from a noted overachiever who was likely seeking balance within perfection. The words give permission to create, cultivate, to exist without being frantic about where you are, what you have or don’t have. The framed fabric and stitched words have been lost, but the phrase is ever with me.

When I cross-stitched those words onto cloth for a wall-hanging, I was learning, and I am still learning (because truths do not change), that there is always more to do than can be done. And doing my best is not always going to accomplish what I want my best to accomplish

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Dianne Poston Owens

Cultivating

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What are you cultivating?

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Cultivating

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