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My garden
1 of 3 evergreen
On slow ideas
The best ideas arrive years apart.
Seedling0 links · Just planted
How I take notes
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Budding4 links · Growing links
Compounding curiosity
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Evergreen11 links · Ready to share
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01
Plant
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02
Tend
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03
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04
Harvest
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garden.odette.me/on-slow-ideas
EvergreenPlanted Mar 2024 · Tended 31 times
On slow ideas
The best ideas I’ve had arrived years apart. Rereading my commonplace books I saw that two of them were the same idea in different clothes.
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