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garden people ~ April 22, 2002 - 10:04 p.m. I feel so good. it's just been a really lovely day. gorgeous up here, sunny and warm, so nice after the weird cold snap we just went through. and monday afternoons I work in the garden. I love working in the garden. especially on gorgeous days. I filled wheelbarrow after wheelbarrow with compost, and I was loving it. I prepared a bed for planting, mulching it over with compost and straw. and then in the middle of it all, devaki, who runs the garden, said that I seemed like a good garden person, and was I thinking about staying on, and did I want to work in the garden more? see, the way it works around here is that when you come for your first six weeks, you do a little bit of mostly everything for your "karma yoga" hours. (karma yoga = work trade, being of service to the community). towards the end of the six weeks, you can decide if you want to apply to stay on for another six weeks. at that point, most people start to specialize a bit more, find the areas where they work best and are needed. devaki wants me to be one of the garden people, which means that I'd get to work in the garden all the time. oh, yes. I've had fantasies like that, but I didn't really think I'd get to be one of the garden people (of which there are something like 3 or 4) because lots of people want that job, and I have very little garden experience. I've been wanting to learn more forever, but the right situation just never came around. so it looks like I may get to learn how to garden for real. and spend lots of time out in the sun, with my hands in the earth, under that incredible sky that stretches out across the whole valley to monterey bay and beyond. and the extension thing? I already know that I want to stick around for a while. and I think they'll let me. they may even let me be one of the garden people.
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