Lawn and garden. Making your

October 29, 2002

Lawn and garden. Making your dent in the natural world. Practicing the art of cultivation. Making decisions that gravity,wind, rain, snow, animal migration, insect behaviour, light, fire and pollution will eventually reverse. Your meddling can only yield microcosmic success. High fashion versus wearability. Can’t make the leaf fall close to the tree. Its all going to be OK. My home is a tradesman’s garden that the natural forces of human interaction are shaping to their needs. I clean it and the work is reversed almost instantaneously. The natural world is moving indoors. Flora & fauna. Microbes and enzymes. Catalysts and neutral loam and silica. I surrender.