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

Standing up appropriately

Time to get busy doing what is essential instead of what is needed and necessary. To do that, we have to define those words. An essential is something that is crucial, important, and required. A need is something that is wanted, nice to have, but possibly not required. Possibly, though, it is. And necessary. What is necessary? The necessary is unavoidable, obligatory, and quite possibly inescapable and inevitable. Necessary will see to it that it is taken care of, if in fact it is necessary. And, in the moment, wants and needs and essentials all disguise as the necessary and then the moment passes, and the necessary becomes a passing fancy and the want becomes unavoidable. Good luck figuring it out! But know this, we have no time to spare. Just now. So get busy doing the essential. Read on...

Book Excerpt

Cultivating

If my days are numbered no matter what I do, then this may just be a futile attempt on my part to entice my Maker to be more pleased with me. “Look, over here. I’m trying. See me standing? I’m the one waving my arms and not resting on my laurels. Pick me last!”

I believe we are created to walk, run, lift, tote, fetch, push, pull and move, and I also believe that we don’t.

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Dianne Poston Owens

Cultivating

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Author Biography

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Standing up appropriately

Book Excerpt

Cultivating

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