Lughnasa\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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waxing Back to School Moon<\/p>\n
Nap.\u00a0 Off to Ace Hardware for chemically resistant gloves.\u00a0 Really.\u00a0 Why would I use anything that required them?\u00a0 Normally, I wouldn’t.\u00a0 But the varroa mites compromise the divide’s ability to survive the winter and the U says to do this until IPM begins to work.\u00a0 If I didn’t have a strong recommendation to go ahead from people whom I know share my overall perspective on medication, I would just chance it.\u00a0 Kate made shims for me to put on the hive boxes to give bees enough space to walk around and get in the Apiguard.\u00a0 She made them in plenty of time.\u00a0 I forgot to take them out with me.\u00a0 Sigh.<\/p>\n
I have to go out again tomorrow and put them in place.\u00a0 Didn’t realize I’d forgotten them until I came inside and saw them still there on the dog crate.<\/p>\n
The garlic is in the ground.\u00a0 This is the first year I’m planting only garlic I have grown.\u00a0 In previous years I’ve always bought a few bulbs of a variety I haven’t tried.\u00a0 The planting of garlic grown here both naturalizes the plant to our locale and gives me a sense of a circle closed.\u00a0 Satisfying.<\/p>\n
Dug potatoes, too.\u00a0 One row of three.\u00a0 Not as productive as last year so far, but not bad.\u00a0 I planted these at ground level in the oldest of the raised beds, one almost flush with the garden floor.\u00a0 I will not do that again.\u00a0 Way too much bending over.\u00a0 Still, the thrill of digging a potato out of the loose soil constitutes a miracle as far I’m concerned.<\/p>\n
The older I get the more I have the opposite problem from the early advocates of higher criticism of the Bible.\u00a0 They thought miracles were problematic in the biblical narrative and went about finding natural explanations for them or chalking them up to mythologization.\u00a0 Not me.<\/p>\n
Miracles are everywhere in my world.\u00a0 Those pale yellow roots against the darkness of the soil.\u00a0 Edible!\u00a0 Planting garlic in the fall so I can harvest it next June.\u00a0 Cooperating with insects to produce a sweet, delicious liquid that I can share with friends.\u00a0 How about that!\u00a0 Being part of a young woman’s search for her vocational path.\u00a0 A person mutating from young adult to a professional.\u00a0 Getting up in the morning with energy and eagerness for the day.\u00a0 Greetings from Vega and Rigel with tails thumping and bodies quivering.\u00a0 Knowing that we get our food from the energy of a star 93 million miles away from us.\u00a0 Having a modest grasp of quantum mechanics.\u00a0 The absolute, dumbfounding miracle of love between Kate and me, our kids, our grandkids.\u00a0 Friendships that have endured for years and years.\u00a0 Life is so full of miracles I have to fight through them to get to breakfast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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