Maybe
you have a green thumb, maybe you don’t. Either way, it can nourish your
happiness to plant for a garden of your own.
It can be a small garden or a big
one. It can be a garden in your backyard or an apartment-dweller’s garden in a
wooden tub. Your garden could be some distance from your home in a
city-sponsored public garden area.
Regardless, the point is to nourish
your happiness by cultivating tomatoes, lettuce, and corn, or roses, marigolds
and petunias – flowers of as many kinds as you like. You prepare the ground,
digging it up, loosening the soil, getting it ready.
You plant the seeds or set
out the already started plants, as with tomatoes. You fertilize, you water, and
you weed. You get down on your knees and work the earth, and one day the
veggies and/or flowers you planted begin to poke up into the world above
ground. Tomatoes like lots of sun.
You are a part of the earth. To
cultivate the earth and make things grow is a primordial human activity. To
cultivate the earth gets you into contact with basic forces, basic energies,
clean, fresh, beautiful things.
It does something good for you, deep
down, to look a newly dug potato in the eye. It does something good for you to
bake a rhubarb pie using rhubarb you grew yourself. It does something good for
you to fill a basket with six or seven large zucchini, take them to a friend’s
house, leave them by the front door, ring the doorbell, and run back to your
car and drive away… (heh, heh, heh).
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