Deep Reads: The Gardener

To tend is to commit to life over time. The Gardener card invites us into cycles of care—sowing, pruning, composting, and starting again. This Deep Read follows the footsteps of Derek Jarman.

“The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end. A time that does not cleave the day with rush hours. Lunch breaks, the last bus home. As you walk in the garden you pass into this time – the moment of entering can never be remembered. Around you the landscape lies transfigured. Here is the Amen beyond the prayer.”
— Derek Ja…