{"id":1013,"date":"2015-04-08T00:51:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-08T00:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/?p=1013"},"modified":"2015-04-08T00:51:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T00:51:24","slug":"learning-to-relax-in-the-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmccullough.com\/kblog\/learning-to-relax-in-the-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning to Relax in the Garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dianne<\/p>\n

This post is part of the Authors in Bloom Blog Hop. Read to the bottom to learn how you can qualify for some nice prizes.<\/span><\/p>\n

As part of the Blog Hop, we’re supposed to share a gardening tip or recipe. Since I’m an avid gardener and pretty much of a bust in the kitchen, it’s a no-brained for me to offer a gardening tip. So for the last week or so, I’ve been racking my brain, trying to come up with a great. Gardening tip. Sadly, I’ve got nothing.<\/p>\n

Almost nothing. As I was trying to figure out the most interesting or important thing I’d learned about gardening, the one thing that kept coming to me was simply, “Relax.”<\/p>\n

Sounds odd, I know, since gardening involves a lot of physical.labor. But it also involves a certain level of risk, and even failure. Things happen. Critters eat your sweet little plants. Your prized rose bush gets black spot and loses all its leaves. A favorite shrub folds up and dies. I used to take it personally, and felt like a total failure in the yard.<\/p>\n

But after watching professionals maintain a lovely arboretum near my home, I’ve come to realize that the occasional garden fatality is normal. It’s part of the cycle of life. Plants die, and plants are reborn. New plants grow. It’s nature on the raw and part of the appeal.<\/p>\n

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When Cathy Bennett agrees to attend an important party as a favor for her boss, she knows she won’t enjoy it.\u00a0But she doesn’t expect to end up holding a dying man in her arms and becoming the recipient of his last message.\u00a0Bobby Stark has evidence that will prove his younger brother has been framed for arson and murder.\u00a0He wants that evidence to get to his brother’s lawyer, and he tries to tell Cathy where he’s hidden it. But he dies before he can give her more than a cryptic piece of the location.<\/p>\n

The man who killed Bobby saw him talking to her and assumes she knows where the evidence is hidden.\u00a0He wants it back and he’ll do whatever it takes to get it, including following her and trying to kidnap her.<\/p>\n

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