Honest Scrap Award

Susan Cohan, APLD,  author of the blog Miss Rumphius’ Rules, tagged me with the Honest Scrap award.  A month ago.  (Thanks to Teresa O’Connor of Seasonal Wisdom for the reminder!)  I apparently internalized the admonition that it’s not polite to talk about one’s self.  But I can’t go against Susan, so here goes!  The rules: list 10 honest things about yourself, then tag seven other bloggers to play along.

1. I’m kind of a minimalist, not in design, but in my everyday life.  It’s not a philosophical position — maybe just pragmatism or a hold-over from living in voluntary poverty.  It extends to decoration, accessories, and condiments.  (Maple syrup is an exception!)
2. The cobbler’s children have no shoes.  When we bought our house in 2007, it had a completely paved lot.  It still does, but with a lot more containers.  Budget permitting, we would have an urban permaculture paradise.
3. That look on my face in all of my profile pictures?  It’s inevitably caused by my son being somewhere right off camera, doing something that I find brilliant or hilarious. (Look: time-elapsed aging!)



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4. I’m just as happy pruning as drawing.  Possibly more.
5. I haven’t really accepted that my Honda Fit is not the Ford Tundra that I used to drive.  The folks at the nursery and stoneyard have stopped looking surprised at what I can fit in there, though.
6. My favorite holiday gift this year was a pair of new running shoes, specifically Five Fingers KSO’s.  I talk about them (and running) way too much, so I’ll spare you the details.



7. I’ve run the Boston Marathon, but I  just learned to ride a bike this year (to rehab from an injury training for aforementioned marathon).
8. For those of you who don’t know me in person: I’m a little intense.
9. I’m a closet thespian.  Theater was my big extracurricular throughout school, and in college I had a work-study job making costumes, including these get-ups:
   

   The Way of the World, Cornell CTA

10. My academic background is in religious studies, and I always expected I would be running a non-profit, not designing landscapes.  However, I believe that creating landscapes touches on what is most sacred to people, allowing us to re(de)fine our relationship with our selves,  families, communities, and the natural world.

Tagged:

1. Mike at Urban Organic Gardener
2. Andrew at Garden Smackdown
3. Theresa at Living Homegrown Fresh
4. Robin at MommyMommyLand (who has a new baby – Mazal Tov! – and is granted a full year to follow up on this)
5. Nici at Dig This Chick
6. El at Fast Grow the Weeds
7. C.L. at Whole Life Gardening