Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to…. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. Unattributed

We make New Year’s Resolutions at our house. My husband and I are both bookish, reflective people who tend to chew on ideas and ruminate about things. We do this day in and day out, all year long, and with New Year’s, we can’t help it either. When I ask him about it, he says he’s always been this way. I say the same. For me, I take stock at the new calendar year, just as I do my birthday in Spring, as an opportunity to adjust my attitudes and behaviors. 

If I am like a plant (which I tend to think I am, as much as I am animal and woman and human and energetic matter), I have life cycles. New Year’s resolutions are almost like pollinators that refine my natural strengths and shortcomings. Or, perhaps they are like hybridzers meant to systematically eliminate my fatal flaws.

This year, my resolution is to pay closer attention to my body. To nurture it and nourish it in positive, beneficial ways. …I’ve spent several years so caught up in workworkworkworkwork and I’ve neglected my shoulders, my posture, my hips and my hamstrings. I need to open, reopen, stand taller, grow more flexible.

It turns out I want to achieve those same things on my blog this year, too. (A new kind of workworkworkworkwork, no doubt. But a happier one, for sure.) In 2009, I’ll keep making regular posts Monday-Friday, and in addition to the photographs and gardening narratives you’ve come to expect, I’m going to try a few new things. Please share your feedback as we go.

In no particular order, some of the new blog content will include 

• A new look and blog interface, coming soon, I promise. I SWEAR! It will be inspired by Fern Richardson at Life on the Balcony.
• Intimate Memoir – deeper, more personal stories told from the perspective of this gardener and nature lover
• Bzzzzness Reports – interviews and feature stories with gardening, horticulture and agriculture professionals in my community and, eventually, in yours
• Book Reviews – the good, the bad and the amazing books I’m sifting, pouring through or coveting
• Weekly Q&A – personal questions to help us connect with ourselves and each other as we examine our garden-related memories and values
• Upcoming Events – garden and gardening-related activities in the West and Northern Colorado, the place I now call home

In honor of the new opportunities I’m inviting into my life and Invisible Bees, we’re kicking off this year’s posts with stories related to seed.

Stay tuned.

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1. Spring Cleanup and Relaunch Coming to Invisible Bees
2. Invisible Bees has been shortlisted for Schmap
3. David Thurston and the International Garden Photographer of the Year Nominees, 2009
4. Anthropologie Loves Bees
5. Pure Seed