Love Letter to a Garden
The Design Matters host turns to her own garden, hand-lettering a book that opens at the Big Bang and narrows to one plot of ground worth tending slowly.
Millman illustrated and hand-lettered every page of this book about one plot of ground, and begins it at the origin of the universe before narrowing to her own beds and borders. Roxane Gay contributes the recipes. The result is a meditation on tending something that moves more slowly than a career and rewards an entirely different kind of attention.
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Maria Popova
This is why Debbie Millman (yes) begins her tenderly illustrated Love Letter to a Garden (public library) at the very beginning, at that first atom of time chipped from the rib of eternity — the singularity that seeded everything.
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