Living in the real World

[Amrah Aoson]

When you have traveled as much as i have across America you see many things. Some good and some not so good? While i have been stuck recently at my brothers house and he is working in the mill and i am not. I decided to try and upgrade his garden, as i love gardens. So after much work and then not even enough, i have added some compliments to the garden. Then finally i realized that this small space would not even be enough? I look the the neighbors yards which are very too much close to ours, and it comes to my mind that we should take out every other house and use that for more garden space! Im sure the real estate developers never had such intuition as they were all about making money, Mammon that great evil of this world! Could you imagine twice the space in the right hands could produce enough vegetables to even feed the neighbors who did not have enough. But i digress, can you imagine a cherry tree in full bloom in the spring, what beauty! Broccoli as high as a man with great heads, cabbages and cauliflowers as big as basketballs, 20 foot corn with foot and a half long ears of the sweetest corn you had ever tasted? Watermelon vines that spread 30 feet in all directions and have some of the biggest watermelons. Mulberry trees with mulberries as big as your thumb and very healthy for you, so much that you could feed the birds, the squirrels and still have enough leftover for 10 neighbors and your family! Well the list goes on, pick your favorite vegetable or tree and plant it, It is marvelous for the Soul and the multitude of your gains even better for the giving to others! To sit under your shade trees and share a giant watermelon with freinds on a hot day? To can all of these and more for the winter, have a pumpkin on your porch almost big enough to collapse it? Wisteria vines with all their beauty, mums planted all around, daffodils and daiseys and flowers of all kinds of descriptions to entice the eye, Hummingbirds and cardinals and sparrows, butterflys of every kind and color. Can you now see that the world as it should be, the one that was stolen from us? Never again can we allow those of the darkness to darken our doors or our lives as we are the Children of God!!! And the World was created for our pleasure as it was always meant to be! Now the time has come the walrus said to speak of many things!

[Amrah Aoson]

Hi, It brings to mind my first little house now long gone to me.i had to pay the other owners $2000. And buy their old furnishings to get them to move out completely,After i had assumed the mortgage They were a terror to their neighbors, all about drugs and fighting. And the house was a wreck. So having been a roofer for 20 years,i put a new roof on it,because it leaked alot. Then i painted it a bright blue color and planted flower beds around it. I had no wife atm and since the neighbors seen what i had done with the house they assumed i was gay? And come halloween that year the kids pelted my house with eggs,Lol. I had a  few girlfriends in church and have never been gay! But that shows about how bad peoples perceptions are. That spring i rototilled up the backyard and begain to bring in all kinds of truckloads of different kinds of dirt and fixings. So now my neighbor next door to me, whose yard was meticulous and mowed better than a golf course. Threw a fit and gave me a 30 minute tantrum about how i had ruined his property values, and said i was only a little better than the crackheads who lived there before me? Well things changed after the garden came to full  and i started giving the neighbors all kinds of fresh produce and my yard looked like a proverbial garden of eden for the time. Then i bought some ducks and made them a pen and let them run loose from time to time as they could get over the little fence any time they wanted and that brought another fit from the neighbor, He says well they'll poop all over the place and smell bad and make alot of noise, i said more noise than your pekingnese barking under my bedroom window everyday all morining and night? Well after awhile the ducks wouldnt eat the cracked corn i got them and i was suspicious and there were two new concrete blocks, one on my side of the fence and one on the neighbors side. So i watched out the back window one night after it got dark? And sure enough the neighbor was sneaking into my back yard and feeding the ducks and petting them and talking to them like they were his children. Later he confessed to me that he just loved those ducks, in my yard though and not in his? Well the ducks multiplied like rabbits and we had heard that hooligans had killed all of the ducks at the local lake. So we asked that city and they agreed and said they would be happy to have those ducks to replace the ones that were killed. And so that lake is still full of all the ducks that came from my backyard and many more. While the school bus loaded in the morning by my backyard, i had to build a 6 foot fence as the kids were all about trying to destroy the garden. After that the could only try to hit the ducks with stones, and write on my wooden fence. After that year i convinced the school to move the little hellions bus stop to someone else's yard! I had the teenage son of one of the fathers who started the gay crap, help me build the fence, as he needed some money for school clothes, his dad was an alky. I showed him the 225 lbs of weights i had on a bar in the backyard that i worked out with. I told him to try and pick it up. He couldnt of course and i picked it up and curled it 4 or 5 times and then set it back down. I told him that i was not gay and that i had a girlfreind and that i worked in roofing construction for many years. Wasnt but a few days went by and his dad came over and apologized for starting the mischef and rumors,and thanked me for giving his son a job so he could get his school clothes. It took a few years but i won over most of the neighbors. Of  course you can never expect to win over everyone as there are always a few bad eggs!

[Rosemary S]

Gee it is uplifting to know that there are other gardeners here. Come February and March, I look for my seeds. I find the pots and wash them. I put my own compost in each one and plant the seeds. I place the pots on a pot warmer. I water the pots from the bottom to prevent over watering. Then everyday, I check to see if any thing came up. Like a hen checking on her brood, i check and recheck how the seeds are doing. An then the miracle happen. Specks of green are popping up from the soil. Then it is hardening time. I put my pots outside on warm days and bring them in later in the afternoon. Trying to contain my impatience, I see May come along.  It is time to open up the garden for anther year.

We have been picking strawberries since 3 weeks. It is unbelievable that I do not have to go to the grocery store to eat. I just have to go outside to get the tastiest salad.

I wish I could talk with my neighbors about their gardens, but here, it is every one to themselves. The community spirit is totally absent.

[desertrose]

I think   Amrah that  people all across  America are  starting to  see this and  understand.  Of course most  have  done  so  due  to the economic  situation.  Nonetheless, they are tearing up their lawns  and   planting  gardens where  nothing  of use  grew  before.  TPTB  are  fighting back  trying to  use  city  codes and ordinances to  keep them from  doing so.  However  they are  fighting a losing  battle  as they have  revealed themselves.  Those  who have taken  this step are  now  coming to the  realization that lawns like many of the things  we  obsess about as  homeowners  are  worthless.  They are  a cosmetic  extension of  our  own  sense of  worth  as  homeowners.  The  face  we   show the  community  so  to  speak.  But  what  is its  worth truly?  We  are coming to  understand that  community is more than just  living in the  same  neighborhood.  It is  getting to  know our  neighbor, it is  helping out those around us .  It is  thinking of  the  situations that  will arise   due  to the  economic situations  developing on  almost a  daily  basis.  It is  giving  back  to nature,  the mother and   wildlife  alike.

There is something cathartic about  a garden.  Where  you  till and  prepare  the soil, plant the  seed and  nuture it  untill it grows and then in gratitude  for  your love and  care it bears its  fruit  for  you  to  enjoy.  It  is  a microcosm  of the  Universe.  Its laws mirrored in  our  small little corner  of the cosmos.  It is  those  laws and  principles in action.  Whether  people  understand it  or not  it  is  these  small urban and community gardens  that are  bringing us back to  the mindset  that  we need  for  what  is to  come.  It  will be  what  allows  us  to move on and  do for  ourselves  when all our  toys  are not longer available.  It is  what  will convert the  cold and  separate  communities  we  now live in  into  warm active  and  caring   communities  where  everyone  takes  care of  each other.

I  have   founf that  the laws of  nature  have a  way  fo  steering one  in the  direction that  one  must  go  even  when  we  do  not understand  where the particular  road we  are on will lead.  The human  community s  being  prepared  and  lead down  the path to  a more loving  and caring  commune with  nature  and   each  other.  Some may  go kicking  and  creaming   but  go they  will.  I   welcome  this  change and embrace it   fully.  Mother  Earth needs  to  be loved and  we need  to become more  aware  of what is  around us rather than   focus always inward  and on what  our needs  are.  We are  so much  more than that and the simple art of  gardening and  feeding ourselves  , our  families and  our  neighbors are the baby  steps  that  will take us there.  I  believe.  :)

[Kim B]

BTW, just picked my first cucumber today.  Yay.  :)  Getting loads of zucchinis (all organic) and corn is just about ready to be picked.  The broccoli of course is finished for now, and still waiting for all my green tomatoes to turn red.

[Kim B]

The reason why I am very thankful I live rurally and have 15 acres.  I have my little veggie gardens, I sure wish I had the time to expand them.  Of course one day maybe I will have more time to spend tending to my gardens and be able to plant a lot more.  :)

[Amrah Aoson]

The point is very obvious! Living the life you were meant to live and not the one you are forced to live now! Forget the lawyers, the politicians, the armys,the police, the false governments. The over crowded citys, the corporations, the concrete jungles that many are forced to live in, the poor who live in sandusted burntout wastelands and flooded shacks that pile upon each other to the sky?The polluted waterways and oceans? The New World will be none of these!!! You will be one with the earth and Love it and still have all the technologies you have today and much, much more! I am saying this will be what you will have very soon and noone in this universe shall say nay! It is only for a short time now and all of the most beautiful things of this universe shall be yours! So be of good cheer and have much hope, for all of this the Prime Creator of all Souls has promised unto you, and His Word cannot be broken!!! For while we wait here in what must seem like a hell? The Prime Fathers words are always True and all these good things shall be yours and your children after you for thousands of generations. And Lo i am always with you!