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Commentary: How to dig your way out of climate grief

The garden reminds us that despite what has been destroyed, what is at risk, we can build, amend, repair, writes Tess Taylor.

This winter there were moments when I wasn’t sure I was going to make it back into my garden. I wasn’t sure I wanted to, would have time, would care. I wasn’t sure it would ever stop raining.

After six of the warmest years ever recorded in California, after five years of record wildfires, amid the driest period in 1,200 years, this year’s record snowfall, its deluge after deluge of violent rain seemed more than the earth could take.

More water is a net good after long drought, but it’s also an uneasy bounty.

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