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The Art of Living in Season
Bio
A retired French teacher, homeschooler, and certified botanic artist, I seek to live as a place-maker, using my gifts to cultivate whatever and whoever happens to be growing in and around my locale – home, classroom, church, neighborhood, even literal garden – as a way to welcome Christ in my place, which I call "being advent-ish."
I presently focus my attention on my writing and botanical art, partly inspired by the places in which I have lived, starting with Provence, France, where I grew up, before transplanting in England, Scotland, and finally in the American Midwest.
The art of living in season
The art of living in season is an attentiveness, a way of perceiving God's artistry in creation through the seasons. It is about seizing opportunities to celebrate the extraordinary in life’s ordinary moments, one season at a time. It is about cultivating an ethnobotanical relationship in which people, plants and places all work together under God, in order to flourish “like a tree planted by streams of water that yields its fruit in season, and its leaf does not wither.”
(Psalm 1:3)
Over the years, I have come to contemplate how the natural seasons often interact with and enrich our walk through the church seasons, as well as our life seasons, giving us a local stage from which to enact our Christian discipleship – our everyday sainthood – in such a way that there is a fittingness to how we do everything in our God-given orderly world and its seasons. I wrote and illustrated these reflections in
The Art of Living in Season, 2024.
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