Recovery takes many forms:

It is personal, shared, specific, temporal, ongoing, cyclical, painful, powerful, corny, vague,unsettling, unearthing, uprooting

It is endless, effort, investigating, confronting, confessing, gorgeous, curious, surprising,rewarding, renewing,

It is fragile like a piece of stained glass. It is revealing like an X-ray. It is picking up the pieces and composing anew.  

It is layered like a collage or a bed of soil. Gardening feels like a collage. Gardening feels like recovery.

Gardening takes many forms:

It is sowing, planting, fixing, placing, maintaining - all acts of composition.

Working as a gardener I recovered:

A pocket watch, a peach pit, a lightbulb, hair clips, a marble, a knot, a fake flower, a die, a toy dinosaur, a mirror…