“Spring cleaning is a time to release what we are hiding. The room such things take robs us of new life. Now is the time to gather the old from under those sneaky bushes where things tend to hide. Now is the time to throw the worn into the compost pile. Now is the time to turn the soil, to be open to renewal. Now is the time to ask for new leaves.”

–from Gunilla Norris’s poetic meditations on a year of gardening called “A Mystic Garden: Working with Soil, Attending to Soul.” (Coming out April 1.)