wow.

[ceelove]

I still don't know what "permaculture" means, really. When people ask me what I'm going to be learning, I fumble a bit and respond with something like, "I don't know, everything!" But I've read Finding a Sense of Surplus, an essay recommended by the course that I'll be starting this upcoming weekend, and...just, wow. If you want to know where my life is going now, this can explain it far better than I can.

It's been a while since I've encountered something that neatly summed up a bunch of what I already knew to be my beliefs and then went on to describe a bunch more of what I do believe, I just didn't know it. The way I relate to our garden - the pleasure piled on pleasure of harvesting and then sharing the bounty - and the increasing closeness I've felt to divinity, it's all here wrapped up together.

By the way, yesterday I harvested (to share) the last of the sungold tomatoes for the year, and the score of remaining peppers; a bunch of mustard greens and lettuces, including hardy greens that I'll hopefully still be harvesting into January; a handful of fall raspberries; and some broccoli and kohlrabi. I love the garden. It's even helping me transition into the cold weather...