And that’s what we’re doing here, in Green Acres Permaculture Village, “growing community from the ground up.” And it’s the ground which teaches us how to BE with each other. 

Which reminds me, see the BEE in the bottom right corner of this montage. I took these photos this morning, and though there were lots of bees flitting about and on the the butterfly weed, I only managed to capture one. Rogue sunflower shooting up top right; climbing beans to the left.

Tiny splashes of color here and there and everywhere . . . 

Above, garden panorama; below, Joseph’s fairy garden.

In the top photo above, notice the old two-forked tree stump. That’s from the bradford pear which, not knowing better, we planted the very first year of the garden, back in 2010. Finally hacked it down five or six years ago; yet its trunk still stands, reminding us of the past as we learn from the garden to be so fully present that we move seamlessly into the future.  

BTW: only nine people at Thursday’s Community Dinner. “You never know how many will come, EVER!” We remind each other of this as we set up for the event each time, wondering how many tables? This time we had four extra tables (the most ever!), since we expected many more, including a family with five kids! Unfortunately, they didn’t make it, as didn’t many regulars and residents who were out of town. But these intimate dinner conversations dig down deeper than the more rowdy boisterous ones. All in all, very satisfying.

Next up: Solstice Community Dinner: Ceremony and Celebration. June 22.