Potatoes

Tuesday June 3, 2009

Today I was with Phil and we went to Dwayne’s house in Porcupine to work on three different community gardens. We planted onions, potatoes, turnips, beats, and radishes. We ran irrigation lions, cleaned up the garden, and dug out post holes and put in fence posts (although no fence). We had a lot of fun in the garden, especially with the potatoes.

However, tonight was not as fun. Every night we do Roses & Thorns, it’s a daily reflection of highs and lows of the day and experience. There are a few rules to R&T: (1) You cannot have a thorn without a rose, (2) you can have a rose without a rose, and (3) a thorn cannot be a person, so that it doesn’t become personal. So it was the crazy lady from Virginia’s turn “well, my thorn would be the staff I worked with today, I don’t want to go into detail.” I was one of the “staff” she worked with. So yeah, that led to a whole big mess.