Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise Mindfulness & Meditation An essential work that centers

An essential work that centers colonial and historical trauma in a framework for healing

but more importantly

What unites not just the characters

who call themselves rootbound

If the state is predicated on a racialized and gendered capitalism

Garden Against Time: In Search of a Common Paradise Mindfulness & Meditation An essential work that centersIn 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore an eighteenth century walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work brought to light a crucial question for our age: Who gets to live in paradise, and how can we share it while there's still time? Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton's Paradise Lost to John Clare's enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by