The author is a hermit at heart in a socially demanding career who recharges her batteries by dawdling in her untidy garden. While enjoying the solitude whenever she can, she lets her thoughts flow freely as she communes with nature and ponders the meaning of life’s seemingly random and often harsh events. When a confluence of motivators plants a proverbial seed, her random thoughts organize and flow into a narrative that attempts to pin down concrete answers to some of the more thorny and frustrating issues facing the people in her life and the people of the world.