About My Idea Garden

“And I jotted each of these items down in a little notebook so I could remember them later on, because that whole week I never lost the feeling that I was participating in world event and was linked in a tiny invisible way, to everything that took place everywhere.”

- Gregoire Bouillier, The Mystery Guest


I write, sketch, and dialog to make sense of and connect with the world around me.

For the ideas that are still growing in meaning, I call them Living.

For the ideas that hold their meaning, which I (and others) sometimes need to hear again… they are called Evergreen.

And for the ideas that longer burn brightly for me and in fact feel like they belong ‘in another time’, they are Fossils.


Page from Thesaurus of Alchemy (ca. 1725), depicting the main features of the alchemical process.

scouting land

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testing soil

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planting

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watering

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cultivating

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pruning

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scouting land 〰️ testing soil 〰️ planting 〰️ watering 〰️ cultivating 〰️ pruning 〰️

Living

Shining brightly,
growing in meaning

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Frontispiece from Smith's Illustrated Astronomy

Evergreen

Need to hear again,
links to meaning

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Fossil

Souvenir from another time,
waning in meaning

scouting land

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testing soil

〰️

planting

〰️

watering

〰️

cultivating

〰️

pruning

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scouting land 〰️ testing soil 〰️ planting 〰️ watering 〰️ cultivating 〰️ pruning 〰️

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The concepts “Living”, “Evergreen”, and “Fossil” drawn from coaching sessions and creative containers led by Nitzan Hermon 2020–present.