Winter solstice brings a short cold day. Tree's buds wait hidden under red-brown coverings their leaves tightly wrapped around one another compressed and silently thinking - the end is near. December roses tremble together on leafless stems their hope flutters while sun's feeble rays fade. But now, in the long dark night, roots remember that the … Continue reading Winter Solstice, Not an End but a Beginning
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Fertile Soil, Fertile Thoughts
Half of the tiny backyard garden behind my Brooklyn apartment came back this spring, the back half. Poison in the soil? Toxins from the building? It was a mystery. It's my first spring here in a renovated building, and so I didn't know what to expect from the backyard. As I always do on every … Continue reading Fertile Soil, Fertile Thoughts