What The Garden Knows

There is something about tending to living things when everything around you feels heavy.

Katie Meeson built her garden not because of grief — but because she needed somewhere to breathe. Somewhere separate from the weight of her work. Somewhere she could look out over the cornfield and feel content and still.

But over time the garden taught her something she hadn't expected. That the earth receives what we give it — seeds, time, grief, questions — and quietly, faithfully, grows something new.

A story about what the soil knows that we sometimes forget.

A free story from A Collection of Short Stories by Katie Meeson — available at quiethavenstories.com