i thought about this all day. I wanted to be SURE it was true before i said it. So i thought. It's true.
Of ALL i have done in my life, this is what i feel most accomplished about. When i came here, there was sand. Over all the years i have year by year brought amendments. in the beginning and then i guess for the first 10 years pretty much, it was small stuff. But it added up. Worms did show up…flourished. Food compost mattered. All the buckets of horse manure i would haul home. Added up. And then, over the last 3 years…the Goats have given. Given manure and scrap feed and today as i planted….it was exhilarating, nothing less. That's not an exaggeration. Exhilarating. The experience of pushing aside the mulch of scrap feed, exposing moist
soil
black
i lifted it to my nose and breathed it in and felt a Joy that was beyond Joy. Soil. that word again, Fecund.
i watched the zillions of sow bugs scatter, thought how diligent they are in their work and thanked them. I wished i had a microscope or whatever it is now that they use to note the micro organisms in any one inch of soil….i know there are Many here.
and This. Above All Else. and i have done it My SELF. This……i have done.
me. grace Forrest grace Maestas grace Forrest~Maestas me, grace, ….. i did this.
and i am proud.
i was brought up to understand that being Proud was not good. even, sinfull. But I am Proud. I'll take my chances with Pride.
planted. Bell Pepper Yellow Hots Eggplant
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