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<\/a>domain of chores. \u00a0No more spraying, harvesting, weeding, checking the health of the plants. \u00a0No more colony inspections.<\/p>\nMany baby boomers, the paper says, have migrated to downtown apartments citing outdoor work and home maintenance as primary motivation. \u00a0While that once might have made sense to me, now I wonder. \u00a0The outdoor work, as long as I’m able, keeps me active, close to the rhythms of the natural world. \u00a0It gives more than it takes. \u00a0Cut off from it in an apartment doesn’t sound appealing. \u00a0If you don’t like it, if it takes more than it gives, then, yes.<\/p>\n
I know that feeling. Home maintenance would take far more than it gives if I felt More than any of these matters, though, is the single word home. \u00a0This is home. \u00a0Though we could, I don’t want to create another one. \u00a0At least not now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Samhain \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Thanksgiving Moon The transition from growing season to fallow season creates a sudden release from one domain of chores. \u00a0No more spraying, harvesting, weeding, checking the … Continue reading Good-Bye Garden. See You On the Flipside.<\/span> <\/a> <\/a>responsible for doing it myself. \u00a0So I can understand wanting to move away from that. \u00a0In an apartment the building takes over the plumbing, the furnace, the windows, the doors. Even there, however, being responsible for seeing that the maintenance gets done, though it does feel burdensome, maintains our agency. \u00a0And I like that.<\/p>\n