A Taste of Eden

A quote from an article I loved:

Gardeners are grown first, not by learning skills, but by yearning for a taste of Eden. We are stirred by a longing that leads us through the seasons of planning, studying, buying, digging up soil, digging in compost, adding biosol, fertilizer, then pruning, weeding, waiting, watering, watching, weeping, fighting bugs, hail, sun scorch, and wind. The fruit that leads this longing is the scent of roses, the taste of strawberries, the harvest of onions, the sight of raspberries and blackberries on the cane, the last tomato taken in before frost, (the figs tasting like toffee). Tolkien frames this poetic task in the words of Gandalf in The Return of the King: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule."


Gratefuls: 
- water for our trees to survive
- seeing some blue sky today
- being graciously let off one commitment that felt like one too many right now