Borske’s garden offers insight into grief, health

  • Norm Borske cleans his garden as the summer season closes. His wife's garden decorations still line the hedges.

    Norm Borske cleans his garden as the summer season closes. His wife's garden decorations still line the hedges.

    Norm Borske cleans his garden as the summer season closes. His wife's garden decorations still line the hedges.
IRON RIVER — It was Norm Borske’s 81st birthday, a sunny and warm one in early September. He spent it where he spends most of his days — tending to his garden. “It keeps me from thinking about other things,” Borske said, taking a break from his late-summer garden clean-up. “It keeps my mind busy and my body. “If you let yourself not do stuff like that, pretty soon, you’re down in the dumps … I…

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