This dead camellia is so pretty. I’m not the green thumb type. I don’t have
\nany plants in my room other than the dead camellia on my desk and the dried
\npurple flowers on my dresser. But they weren’t meant to live permanently, so
\nthat’s okay. I suppose I could have a live plant in my room, but I’m on the
\nnorth side of the house, so I don’t get much light. Odd, sunlight never
\nshines in my room. Never.<\/p>\n
I don’t have a live plant in my room, but I can look through my partly opened
\ncurtains and the window that is slightly open even though the air conditioner
\nhas been running to see the side yard with its huge oak tree and the plum
\ntree that’s blooming and the couple of azaleas that didn’t die and on to the
\nstring of trees growing along the fence and through that to the pasture and
\nthe tall pine trees beyond.<\/p>\n
I don’t have a green thumb. There was that summer thing I was involved in
\none year when I planted a vegetable garden and go back and check on it twice
\na week. But here the weeds grow so fast and the critters hungrily chomp on
\nwhatever we plant, and the stuff we buy at the store looks so much better,
\nand we don’t have to work for it. So I haven’t found myself too eager to get
\ndown in the dirt to coax something to life that is going to take work and
\nisn’t going to yield much results.<\/p>\n
But I planted some stuff today. I took some cuttings and buried them in the
\nground. I wasn’t really sure what I was doing. I don’t know if they will
\nsurvive, but it was a favor to someone. My activity was not aimed at some
\nfuture goal. It was merely the completion of a present request. I don’t
\nknow if I did it correctly, but I did what I could. And I enjoyed it.<\/p>\n
Someone once said that gardening is good for the soul. Or if they hadn’t,
\nthey should have. I discovered that today. There is something basic,
\nsomething elemental about a hand holding steel turning dirt, all for the
\npurpose of life. When someone dies, we put them in the ground. These roots
\nI put in the ground to make them live. The dirt that accepts death gives
\nlife.<\/p>\n
I don’t know if they’ll live or not. Chances are that some will make it. I
\nstuck every root, every branch, everything there into the ground, leaving a
\npotential end exposed. I watered them thoroughly. It’s no longer up to me.<\/p>\n
It’s an investment that will take time to show results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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