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We all have trouble starting things. Well I'm told I have trouble finishing things. Take my home garden for example. I got off to a great start, planting almost every square inch Derek would let me and packing it in with some sense of design. But also taking in all the donated plants from my in-laws and others, as well as feeding my addiction of plant buying - I can easily drop $100 on some plants, but him-and-haw about spending that much on anything else. As the garden grows upward and outward, one realizes how cohesion, maintenance, calm, aesthetics and whims adjust the overall plan. Visiting other gardens helps. One particular garden we visited over the summer was at Coast Cabins, in Manzanita.

This calm, pleasing, simple design works on so many levels. But would it work for my home garden? I want vegetables too, plus some flowers. And a bit of a lawn. What about fruit? Is it sustainable, eco, green, or any other word I strive to achieve? Time will tell. In the end, finishing a task or a plan may work for some people, but I'm not sure if I'll ever be finished tweaking a garden. Like any creative outlet, you gather inspiration throughout your day and return to a project with new perspective and motivation, right? We have to be happy with the idea of constant change, or at least get used to it. In the next 10, 30 or 50 years, the community we live in, our city and our world will change. As long as we each try to make some kind of change with more than ourselves in mind, that's good enough, right?Not enough of us are doing that, though.