The Fitful Blogger - an apology

It's April and the voice of the mowers is heard throughout the land. Guilty of spring fever, I have let life usurp these pages. The rather puny pansies out my window rebuke me for my negligence, too, and lead me to consider how alike gardening and writing are.

Too little attention, poor results.

As plants require fertilizer, so writers need the nourishment of reading, thinking, imagining. Time is wanted. Neither can be rushed. As for trimming, the delete key, that wondrous invention, is to us what pruning is to the gardener.

The comparisons are obvious. I hereby resolve to be better at both writing and watering.