been wondering about that. what exactly WAS/is it.
and i think i understand some. Deb G on her blog Bee Creative had posted a link to an excellent documentary on Permaculture. April 24th post. and part of it is what it is as a documentary, but also, like everything it seems lately, part of it was totally incidental to what it was and that was the young woman farmer who created it. i was very taken by her, her profile, the lines of her face. her hair. how she is just quiet when other people are speaking. i think my daughter is her age, give or take. and then
how it often goes, out of the blue i become aware of the book The Resilient Gardner Food Production and Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times by Carol Deppe.
here you see it. propped on the cucumber trellise. the clothespin holding the cover down because of Wind. in ordinary times the cucumbers would already be up and leafing, sometimes almost ready to send the tendrils. today, the seeds are still in their packet. the ground, the trellis, just waiting. i brought wood in tonight. covered the indigo and weld. will have faith that the young potatoe plants will be ok. too windy for a ground cover. fate.
then, almost simultaneously with receiving the book from the UPS guy this photograph just simply appears.
where was it. i haven't seen it in years. i don't remember the last time i saw it. there are photograph albums that the kids always get out and go through when they are here, but that's not it. i have a habit of sticking things in books and being happily surprised by them when i take a book off the shelf . but not this one. i honestly don't know. it just appeared. and in this moment, i don't even know where it was when it appeared, as in…on the end table?, the book shelf?
and then, again, on Deb G's blog in her side bar is the quote of Terry Tempest Williams that i had read many times before. but it was here again…like in italic neon:
"Our survival, the vitality of the planet depends on mental flexibility and emotional acuity. Hands raised. Hands put to work. We can improvise. We can create without a map. And we don't have to live in isolation. The gift of an attentive life is the ability to recognize patterns and find our way toward a unity built on empathy. Empathy becomes the path that leads us from the margins to the center of concern." ……..Finding Beauty in a Broken World
and i look at this one single daughter of mine and think how so proud i am of her, her huge effort to improvise, create without a map. and i look at her eyes in this photograph as she looks into the camera that i am holding…i guess at her mother, taking her picture. that would be me.
and something in me shifted. i am ready. when it can happen, to move into that "center of concern". these are Uncertain Times.
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