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The retreat's founder is described as the custodian of the land, and I keep wondering on whose behalf. When I walked into the garden, I felt loved and looked after. The beds were well tended, well cared for, and systematically sown. I am not a chaos gardener, and seeing those orderly rows made me quietly happy. Kale was still growing. There was chamomile and several kinds of mint, there were brassicas, and there were small lettuces I would have thought were out of season, until I remembered that their seasons run opposite to mine and that the air there held more moisture. These were the plants I grow at home. The soil was dark and loamy, mixed with sand, the very blend I work to build in my own beds. I don't know whether it formed that way or someone made it, but I felt a kinship with whoever tends that ground. For a moment it felt like a welcome. Only later did I wonder how those plants, and I, came to be at home in both places. Kale, chamomile, and mint traveled the world with settlers, and they grow in my garden and in that one for some of the same reasons. The Western Cape even shares the kind of climate I garden in at home. The familiarity I felt was real, and so is the history that made it possible. I don't need to choose between them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/61a35b0e766fd36658c0dd2c/be45f569-97f6-464c-bcab-b73cb26634ba/Screenshot+2026-10-12+at+4.57.49+PM.png Design Notes - What Grows After the Fire I cannot tell you what it was. I cannot establish a direct connection between that sensation and the generations who came before me, and I know the ground beneath me carries a complicated history of its own. But I know what I felt. I have learned that not every meaningful experience arrives with an explanation. Some things are felt long before they can be understood. At some point during our time together, we adopted the fire lily as a symbol for ourselves as founders. Not just any fire lily, but one in particular: Cyrtanthus ventricosus, which Afrikaans speakers call the brandlelie. It grows only in the fynbos of the Cape's mountains, and it depends entirely on fire to flower. When fire passes over the land, the smoke wakes it, and about nine days later salmon-to-scarlet blooms rise out of the scorched ground. Measuring between 10 and 25cm, these intricate flowers typically start blooming nine days after a fire and remain open for five to six days. Then the plant goes quiet again, sometimes for fifteen years or more, until the next fire. I kept I looked around at the founders, people working toward clean water, mental health, mobility, education, and dignity, and thought it was an extraordinary symbol to carry home. I keep returning to that flower. How much of what we are made of remains unknown to us until after the fire? How many parts of ourselves lie dormant, waiting for conditions we cannot anticipate? 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