Today we walked the east side of our blessed home; to plot where vegetables and flowers and everything in between would be planted. Sunflowers, tomatoes; cilantro, pumpkins, beans, strawberries, corn, squash were on the list. This side of our home gets the best sun; the direct sun from early day to early afternoon. We want to regenerate it with life and wandering paths, a place where we can spend time but also feed each other and our community. Deborah and I have often thought we should turn our east and north sides to a community garden, to open the land Father blessed us with for neighbors to grow the gardens they need for that extra bounty on the table. Just thinking.
Don't often endorse commercial art here but check out "Across the Universe" if you can. It's been haunting me for days. Perhaps because I grew up in the 1960s - watched America come out of Vietnam; then later travelled their myself as a tourist - did the film have [and still has] such a lasting impact. The music didn't arrive in my personal catalog during that time; it was not until post-college that all things Beatles came to mean "music for an era". And here we are so many years away from 1960; in a war on the other side of the planet; discussing race on a national level; watching the economy of our nation and our planet collide with the reality of daily lives that can't absorb the have some/not have some challenges.
Peace still matters; peace is still something to pray for. Love still flows; still needs us to be vessels to keep it flowing. Give it a chance; give it a path into your life.
Update: there is hail and lightning and thunder outside.
con paz,
frank
