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Laura Krueger's avatar

Thank you for sharing your talents for gardening and resistance. It truly resonates with me. Gardening has been my lifelong therapy. For the past year, I've been tackling the winter creeper which has taken over part of my yard - digging it out by hand. It feels so good to get my hands in the dirt and work on those roots all the while thinking about rooting out the divisiveness and injustice that has taken our country. Looking forward to future posts!

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Angela K. Nickerson's avatar

Ooh! I love the idea of pulling those invasives as therapy for "rooting out divisiveness and injustice!" What a wonderful way to put your work into a helpful context. LOVE!

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Kate Bradbury's avatar

I love this Angela!

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Angela K. Nickerson's avatar

Thanks, Kate! Looking for hope anywhere we can find it!

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Jennifer Schum's avatar

Well said! And there is always hope, like daffodils in the Spring. And from the mom who was the recipient of all your post-op TLC thank you, thank you! And for getting MY garden ready for the season, I reaped double rewards. ❤️❤️❤️

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Angela K. Nickerson's avatar

Mama, It was such fun! Love you!

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Wyoming liberal's avatar

Fabulous analogy that we can smile at and relate to. Glad your mom's doing well.

Here in northern Wyoming, spring gardening chores that do NOT involve cleaning up leaves from garden beds are keeping me fairly sane. There were about 1,000 likeminded souls at the Hands Off rally in Billings, MT, which felt amazing in such a red area. We can have hope!

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Angela K. Nickerson's avatar

I love that Billings SHOWED UP! That is fabulous! Hooray for you! :)

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Nancy Matsunaga's avatar

I love all of your posts but I do have a hard time keeping up. I wonder if you could combine some of the content? E.g. maybe you can tack on a "resistance gardening tip" at the end of each post, instead of having it on a separate day? Also, I assume you have a mixture of novices like me and people who are much more knowledgeable - potentially you could have one "beginner tips" day and one that's "for the experts". Just throwing some ideas out there. Honestly I will keep following regardless of what you choose to do, and I'll keep up as well as I can!

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Angela K. Nickerson's avatar

Nancy, those are great ideas! Thank you!! I just kind of started this with a little bit of a plan -- and now it is time to really get systems in place so it is all sustainable. For me -- and for you! Thanks for chiming in!

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Sarah's avatar

Beautiful, Angela, thank you! I love your voice and

gardening wisdom. I am a new gardener late in life in Boise, ID, and it seems like we share many environmental conditions (high and dry) and political convictions (progressive ride or die). Glad to hear your mom is doing well—looking forward to following you in the gardening year ahead.

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Angela K. Nickerson's avatar

Oh, yes! We have LOTS in common! So glad you are here! :)

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Marge Purdy's avatar

Thank you for your thoughts and wisdom. Truly a pleasure to follow you.

Marge Purdy

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Angela K. Nickerson's avatar

Marge, your words mean a lot! Thank you!!

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