hmmm--
i wonder if alan and ann are not right about the garden work
i do know from letters here that many people are truly working hard
and with great love in their gardens
as in the book CANDIDE: "cultivate your own garden"
or in a contemporary retelling, the film JOE DIRT:
"life is a garden: dig it!"
i don't have a garden per se--just a strip of grass, trees, underbrush
between two nearly identical apt buildings
however, have been weeding it and clearing out all the non useful trash
(keep the useful) from this and making way for the plants and trees to
breathe--
putting out the usual supplies for birds and squirrels.
i'm thinking of planting some carrots and potatoes
wondering about the "virtual reality" of the garden project--
brings to mind--wasn't it whitaker chambers who so famously found
"planted" evidence against "commies" in the McCarthy era--concealed in
a pumpkin patch?!
perhaps one could plant invented/imagined "lost civilizations",
"obscure but intriguing fragments," "strata of faded cities," "evidences
ot ruptures in time,"
"traces of vanished worlds,'---and later, next year--or at end of
summer--dig them up and "reconstruct" them--"the glory that was . . . "
-or have some child find them some day--and populate them with Pokemon
figures . . .
it's spring when you hear "Louie, Louie" and the ultimate "Garden Song":
"Inna Gadda da Vida"!
and think of William Blake and Wife sitting nude in their Garden of Eden--
--dbchirot
