A year ago at this time, when snow covered all my world, I was sitting in my study at my computer, happily searching garden topics.\u00a0 I planned and re-planned my backyard.\u00a0 I studied and shopped.\u00a0 I bought the Square Foot Garden book and read it carefully. I talked with Dear Husband and Daughters — garden, garden, garden — was my whole conversation.\u00a0 I devoted myself to my garden.\u00a0 A garden is performance art, visual art, and musical art. The harvest: food for the body, food for the mind,\u00a0 food for the spirit.<\/p>\n
This year I am sitting in my study at my computer, but in China. I long for my garden, it’s time to start planning, and even planting with protection.\u00a0 Chinese people plant gardens in any available piece of ground.\u00a0 I see gardens along a fence, or in a little space outside an apartment, on a balcony, or on a roof.\u00a0 I have no tools or supplies to follow their example.<\/p>\n
This year I have a different garden—one of the mind and heart.\u00a0 I’m nurturing people instead of plants.\u00a0 I’m using language instead of soil.\u00a0 I’m listening to students instead of birds, insects and wind.\u00a0 I have classrooms, not raised garden beds.\u00a0 I’m considering compositions, not compost. Last year, I left the garden before the final harvest.\u00a0 This year, I will too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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