In 2025, my company missed its numbers. Even writing that now catches in my throat. I entered the landscape field in 1986 and I've led The Garden Continuum for over 27 years. After decades in this industry, I'm no stranger to weather delays, staffing headaches, or the unpredictable nature of building a business around living systems. But this season was different. It wasn't that I was idle or unaware. It was that I was following the ...
You can be prepared. You can be competent. You can be kind. You can even be right. And still, a single power move can shut you down so fast your body reacts before your mind has words.
The river in Costa Rica was rushing, cold, and impossible to predict. At first, it looked shallow enough to wade through, the kind of current you could control with balance and will. But the moment I stepped into it, ...