The late, great British filmmaker Derek Jarman spent the last 18 months of his life making a garden at his beach cottage on the UK’s south coast. He recorded this process in a diary/memoir, and this is one of the entries from 1989. I think it says it all:⁠ ⁠ Weeded the back garden, and wired over the fennel the rabbits keep coming back, planted two new irises and montbretia. At 5:30, I sat in the old wicker chair, facing the setting sun, and read the newspapers. A slight chill descended; a choir of gnats floated by, golden sparks catching the last rays of the sun. The wind got up, bringing the smell of the sea; a russet kestrel flew by. Extraordinary peacefulness. ⁠🌿 ⁠ #koalaeco #morenaturefeelbetter⁠ ⁠