PLANT BASED

Reflections on the natural world gently reminding us of what we already know about how to begin, grow, thrive and end.

Book Project - Coming 2026

The Vision

Each time I walk out into the yard and garden is a chance to see it differently, to notice something new, to stumble onto a fresh idea, or to reconnect to what I already deeply know. I think reminding, or re-minding, is a big part of what I’m trying to share with this book. I experience it as a coming back to my self and my senses. It’s calming the noise in my mind chatter enough to recover what it is I really think and question and wonder.

Because among all the mismatched but still harmonious chaos of weeds, vegetables, vines, ferns, trees, herbs and things, each one—even each part of one—holds lessons or just opportunities for reflection in a way that’s fractal: pointing to similar and larger truths. But also their own ineffable truths because sometimes a flower is just a flower, a miracle in itself.

And it is big. It’s about more than healing. It’s not just self-development. It’s being in community with plant life and the other more than human life around us that never finds us truly alone, that deserves our attention, and that sustains us. It’s our shared birthright and responsibility. It’s our home.

I feel that the more I take responsibility for and get into relationship with my little front yard vegetable garden, the landscape plants growing up around my house, the hanging plants on the back patio, and the variety of trees on the land on which I reside—land that has never been mine but which I steward—the better I can do my part for myself, the people I love, and the earth.

I want to share this with others because we are ALL plant based. From our food web to the air we breathe and the water we drink—none of it would happen without plants. WE couldn’t happen without plants.

I would like readers to experience this book feeling calm, fortified, and better resourced. And to feel inspired to take action to tend or plant a garden, to be kind to animals, to think about stewardship of the earth as stewardship of (caring for) ourselves.

Because there is no self-care without caring for the earth. Saving the planet is the ultimate self-care. Plants are just a medium (albeit a very apt one) for a bigger picture call to be a good human on this planet.