Rediscovering Your Passion: Lessons Learned in a Southern Garden
By Azeen Sadeghian, MD, FAAD My personal thoughts on gardening are that you become a gardener when you accidentally ruin more plants than your age, and hopefully along the way you learn how NOT to kill that plant. So, hello, my name is Azeen, and I am a gardener. Don’t ask me my age. Just know I have ruined enough plants to make me somebody’s great grandmother. I cannot translate that definition to anyone’s career, but my garden has put my own purposes and passions into perspective. I tried to grow many plants this past year and as a result, few things thrived. Yes, plants need water and attention, but they also need space and intentionality. Lara Casey, a once ambitious career woman, wrote a great book called Cultivate where she shares her experience gardening with cultivating her spirituality and purposeful intentionality. This parallel between gardening can also be made for our lives, professions, and passions. What kind of garden are you growing? What is your passion? I hope by rea