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The Secret Heart of Serendipity

November 5, 2020by Robyn Haynes 21 Comments

I made a delightful discovery today. While walking down the sideway of our apartment building, I spied a bromeliad with what appeared to be a bloom within a bloom, one […]

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A Little Medicine for Covid Malaise

October 17, 2020by Robyn Haynes 19 Comments

I haven’t been posting lately. I seem to find excuses not to. Oh, it’s not that I don’t want to. I’ve written many posts in my head, mostly when I’m […]

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2020, COVID19

The Strangler Within

August 16, 2020by Robyn Haynes 21 Comments

We encountered a strangler yesterday when we were out walking. I didn’t panic and run for the hills, because the attacker wasn’t the kind that usually comes to mind. But […]

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The Same But Different

July 18, 2020by Robyn Haynes 20 Comments

It’s been a while since I posted. But the morning here is sunny and crisp, just right for contemplating my garden. As I pottered about, replanting flower pots and tending […]

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2020, Butterflies, Change, COVID19

Finding the Bright Spots

June 6, 2020by Robyn Haynes 24 Comments

It’s winter in the Southern Hemisphere. Despite living in a subtropical climate here on the east coast, mornings are chilly. Traditionally a less colourful season, winter in my tiny garden […]

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2020, Winter

Garden of Essential Needs

May 16, 2020by Robyn Haynes 17 Comments

According to the old English proverb, necessity is the mother of invention, and that is never truer than in my tiny courtyard. One thing I’ve learned is a garden is […]

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2020, COVID19

A Garden Shared …

May 3, 2020by Robyn Haynes 28 Comments

… is pleasure multiplied. One of the great joys of being a gardener is the opportunity it gives us to share. Share the interest, share the plants, the successes, the […]

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2020, COVID19, Sharing

A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies

April 25, 2020by Robyn Haynes 21 Comments

Over the past few seasons many gardeners have lamented the increasing absence of insects, butterflies among them. And then just recently, after extensive heat then flooding rains here in Eastern […]

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2020, Butterflies, Change

Interrogating the cracks

April 12, 2020by Robyn Haynes 26 Comments

Cracks are beginning to appear. We’re getting on each other’s nerves, the ‘Woman Who Lives in My Head’ and I. She seems obsessed with the news, the latest depressing COVID19 […]

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2020, COVID19, stories, Stories

Re-framing perspective

April 4, 2020by Robyn Haynes 24 Comments

Patience. The ‘Woman Who Lives in My Head’ has none. Together, we watched breathlessly as the flower spike on my Cattleya orchid slowly emerged from its curled leaf cocoon and […]

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2020, Patience, Perspective

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Robyn Haynes

Robyn Haynes

Robyn enthusiastically pursues a green and writerly life on the north coast of New South Wales, Australia, where her background as a doctor of social anthropology equips her with an interesting slant on the human condition. She spends much time indulging a passion for her garden where she ponders life and attempts to stave off existential angst. In her more reflective moments she makes wry observations on courtyard gardening and its parallels with life.

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