All spring, summer & fall, I've been working to rewild a patch of my yard.

Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her)

All spring, summer & fall, I've been working to rewild a patch of my yard. (Landscapers rewilded two other patches, but this one is all mine.) I pulled invasive species, turned a dead bush into a wood pile, pulled up old landscaping fabric, & researched native plants. Today was the final step it had all led up to: sowing the seeds.

It feels like an incantation, casting these tiny seeds on a steep hill that is not ideal. It feels absurd that it could work.

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Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her)

I know the leaves will cover my handiwork with a tidy blanket for the winter. I know that without my efforts, *something* would have grown there, but in shallow soil, nothing with deep roots that could support a native ecosystem.

I know it's worth trying, even if it fails.

A lot of my work is planting seeds.

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Susan Kaye Quinn 🌱(she/her)

A lot of my planting of seeds feels like an incantation that can't possibly work.

I'm told nearly every day by some rando on the internet, a devotee of nihilism and inaction, that change is impossible.

Change is the only thing I know will happen.

The good kind comes from an incredible amount of work, work that feels impossible before it succeeds, and like magic after it does.

I cast a little magic today. It feels good.
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