If I had more space for planting, I would grow enough beans to eat green and share plentifully in summer and also have enough for dried and frozen beans through the winter.
This year I ate and shared fully most of the summer, but don’t have much for storage. Good thing I can buy food.
This bush was full of tufted titmice and sparrows. They were all simultaneously chirping with excitement.
I imagined some of them agitated and anxiously saying of the unseasonable warmth hat it was not normal and something needed to be done.
The rest of them were loud drunks on the spring warmth. “Life is short. Enjoy what has come.”
Perhaps there was one truly wise bird who was saying that both of those are true and that recognizing both truths was a door to harmony.
This is the second round of fruit ripening on the small tree I brought into the garden this spring. Will these figs ripen enough to be picked before the first frost?
If
I hadn’t been
Working until after
Eight tonight, I would
Not have been out to see
The cherry blossoms
Luminous against
The blue night
Sky.
It is always possible to appreciate beauty, no matter how challenging things are. It is in these moments of recognition that healing takes place.
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Peace and light,
Elizabeth
