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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. But how do we live out this art of living in season? How might we, artists or not, attend to the world around us, and better indwell each season in every place we inhabit? How might we train our eyes to see, our hands to care, and our hearts to return gratitude to the Author of all things good and beautiful?
I wrote and illustrated these reflections in
The Art of Living in Season, 2024.
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