Hope and Gardening

Tomatoes watercolour study

When I read the posts on social media, ridiculing vegetable gardening by how much money is spend by growing your own food, I feel sorry for these people, who have lost the connection to our earth and are deprived of hope when doing something outrages like putting a dried up seed which has all its information stored inside, in a pile of dirt and wait for it to grow and produce delicious food.

For me, gardening is not about saving money, it is about hope.

My heart sings when I see the little seeds stick their heads up and tell me that they are alive.  I can't wait to taste the first ripe tomato out of the garden, still feeling the warmth of the sun on its skin. I can not put a money value on this feeling.

You are what you eat. Eating food that is alive and grown by your hands, or by hands you know what a gift of aliveness is given to us. WOW!

When you go into the grocery store do you feel that our food is alive and that it will nourish you well?

Let's stay connected to our food and feel the hope! 



 

Getting ready for a Swim in glass

Getting Ready 10 x14" monotype print

The windows are open, I smell the breath of the Northumberland Strait.

Another beautiful day in September. No wind to speak off.

Another day for a swim. 

I had been swimming on my own which I enjoyed. However, swimming with another person gives me a great comfort level.  I am not so focused on what could appear out of the water, I am focusing more on swimming, on my form and looking out for the other person.

Will soon get ready for our afternoon swim. What a treat!