Start Small, Keep the Vision

If you've got a garden that's more bare than planted, or an expansive back yard that's at the bottom of an impossibly steep hillside with no access, you already know that feeling of the gap between your dream landscape and the weedy reality you are looking at.

Maybe your older home feels awkward and dated and you've got a Pinterest board with picture perfect ideas that make you feel frustrated because there's no clear path to bringing that vision home.

Keep hold of that dream or that vision. But know that making small edits and efforts along the way, maybe a little bit every day, counts as progress. Give it time.

And each step feeds the creativity and energy for the next thing. Take those impromptu ideas and let the dream evolve. Enjoy the process and just start.

From this week's dispatch in Letters from The Whiskey Porch - a weekly letter on home, garden, and smaller, simpler, more beautiful living, written from a 1924 Craftsman bungalow in Prescott, Arizona.

[Read the full letter →] 50 Fridays over on Substack.

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