Great metaphor, Keri. Of all the things about a rooted "normal" life I will miss, gardening is way up there on the list. Right now, in addition to itching to get my fingers back in the literal garden I can see but no longer own (as I just wrote about), I am also itching to get my fingers back onto my keyboard to finish a novel I have been working on for the past year and a half or so. I stopped work on it when we embarked on backpacking around Southeast Asia for the winter, and now it is still on hold while we prepare to dig up the last of our old life so we can hit the road as nomads. I won't resume work on it until then, but this Spring Fever has got me ready and wishing I could tackle that big project again.
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Great metaphor, Keri. Of all the things about a rooted "normal" life I will miss, gardening is way up there on the list. Right now, in addition to itching to get my fingers back in the literal garden I can see but no longer own (as I just wrote about), I am also itching to get my fingers back onto my keyboard to finish a novel I have been working on for the past year and a half or so. I stopped work on it when we embarked on backpacking around Southeast Asia for the winter, and now it is still on hold while we prepare to dig up the last of our old life so we can hit the road as nomads. I won't resume work on it until then, but this Spring Fever has got me ready and wishing I could tackle that big project again.
I'm not one to garden, but I appreciate those who do. Thank you for inviting us into your garden.