Eryn Ranney
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Eryn Ranney
A mind garden is not a mind backyard. It’s not about dumping notes in there and forgetting about them. To tend to your garden, you need to plant new ideas. The best way to do this is by replanting stems and cuttings from existing ideas you’ve added to your garden—by consistently taking notes, and combining them together, a bit like grafting.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff • You and Your Mind Garden
Being a gardener is like being a steady friend who shows up regularly to listen, protect, and support so that growth can happen.
Growth and
A metaphysical “idea garden” is a mental or virtual space for cultivating creativity, inspiration, and intellectual growth. Here’s a detailed breakdown of this concept:
What Is a Metaphysical Idea Garden?
Not a literal garden but a mental framework: It’s a cognitive and spiritual approach to idea development, where you view your thoughts,
I like to think of gardening metaphors, like growing trust. You have to water it—not too much, not too little. And things will always grow in different directions and with different outcomes than you’re expecting, but that’s okay.
Willa Köerner • On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden
Acceptance and
To garden is to make whole again what has been shattered: the relationships in which you are both producer and consumer, in which you reap the bounty of the earth directly, in which you understand fully how something came into being. It may not be significant in scale, but even if it’s a windowsill geranium high above a city street, it can be... See more
Growth and
To be a gardener is to give a fuck. To be a gardener is to be invested in a place—to know it, to protect it, to be present to it. How can we protect and heal ourselves and our planet if we’re not willing to step into, and value, the role of the gardener?
Wonderground • Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care
Strategy and
preparing a garden and with it a life.
Rebecca Solnit • Orwell's Roses
Growth and
Content Creation and