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Bill who putters · 23-06-2010, 08:33 PM posted to rec.gardens.edible

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Bill who putters wrote:

Got some plants many failed
the ones that didn¹t look pale
The robust look good
I'll divide in time

Meanwhile the sweet anticipation looms
Less the hale says start again
Meanwhile

Process that I can work with
Sort of communing with nature
The reward

Intangible

Worth it for only some.
I don't suppose myself to be the first to suggest that, perhaps,
you might let a little more time elapse between burning one and
addressing the keyboard but you do strike a chord. LOL!
I have no doubt that rolling my own reduces out-of-pocket. Beyond
the pecuniary, tangible and real-but-intangible returns overwhelm.
Gardening can provide one with varieties unobtainable through normal
retail channels. Gardening provides one with produce of known origin,
culture and freshness. Gardening "out of season" can provide the
persistent and the clever with rewards unobtainable at retail.
Additionally, the psychic, psychological, cosmic therapy alone are
beyond measure. Hell, sometimes the _solitude_ is worth paying for!
Isolating and distorting a portion of native ambiance in order to
provide cophesthesis for the picky descendents of alien species cannot
be said to be "natural" by any reasonable definition but the notion that
simply caring for, and nurturing that from which we are constructed can
yield such bounty leaves one speechless and rationalizes superstition.
If family history is reliable, I anticipate spending my last days
on my back in a nursing home in the care and maintenance of a haphazard
collection of poorly trained and unconcerned Haitian transplants and
unable reliably to communicate to actual human beings or with the
objectively "real" world, at all. It is my hope that somewhere the
memory of late winter and early spring mornings in the garden
breakfasting on "English" peas on the halfshell and a well-tempered
Samuel Adams beer with the transition from the third to the fourth
movements of Ludy's Symphony nr 5 in the headset as daybreak caresses
will persist, making the aching old joints, sticky sweat, mosquito
bites, the "oh, shits" and the occasional "goddammit" worthwhile.
But, maybe, that's just me. Who knows? The Shadow do.

A good post perhaps a bit too fast with possible regrets still a good
post. I prefer to appear idiotic but 5 % is pure gold OK maybe 4%.

In search of the lost chord resonate?

--
Bill S. Jersey USA zone 5 shade garden
What use one more wake up call?