Growing Gardens

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Step into a world where wildflowers whisper secrets rivers hum lullabies and maple leaves teach us how to let go. </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Growing Gardens</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> is a playful poignant anthology of poetry and prose that brings together the wonders of the wilderness with the raw complexities of human emotion.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>In these pages every poem is a seed-planted in the soil of resilience watered with struggle and nurtured by perseverance. With tender honesty and vivid imagery J.C. Johnston explores themes of identity sexuality disability and the messy beauty of being human. Whether you've ever felt like a flower wilting in the shade or a tree standing tall through the storm these verses will remind you: growth is never linear but it's always worth it.</span></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Growing Gardens</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> is an invitation to bloom-no matter where you're rooted.</span></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>About the Author</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>J.C. Johnston is a poet adventurer and nature enthusiast who feels most at home paddling through quiet lakes trekking forest trails or setting up camp deep in the backwoods. Originally from Montreal Canada Johnston draws inspiration from the challenges of wilderness exploration using the ebb and flow of nature as a mirror for life's emotional journeys. Whether it's the crunch of autumn leaves underfoot or the call of loons at dusk these moments find their way into Johnston's words. When not writing or wandering the wild she's likely jamming out to classic rock and watching </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>Gilmore Girls</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>.</span></p><p> </p>