Editor’s note: We’re thrilled to announce the winners of our Reinvention Essay Contest. Out of 50-plus submissions, our judges chose this wonderful story about meditation gardening by Clorisa Phillips of Charlottesville. VA, as a runner up. Read the winning essay here.
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Our yard has more than 80 azaleas, planted to form loose hedges by the first owner of our house in the late 1950s. When my husband and I bought it 30 years later, we loved the large, lush azaleas and brilliant pinkish-red blossoms they produced every spring. On sunny days, the flowering bushes cast a crimson glow on our living room ceiling. I liked that the owner had planted them when I was a baby.
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