Better and Homes and Gardens is not coming for a photo shoot, but bark chops are still invading my thoughts, even though the one bag I bought last spring sits unopened in the garage!
I could get mulch, on sale, at Lowes through tomorrow for just 2 dollars per back-breaking bag? But, if I want delivery, that will add 75 dollars, plus a tip! Or, the Depot has bags for 4 with 66 dollar delivery, plus tip. Or Amazon will deliver at the end of the month and leave them, probably at the entrance to my driveway! Goffle Brook Farms has bags only a fork lift can move with a bargain 35 dollar delivery! Or, I could get a dump truck to leave a mountain in my driveway that would certainly force me to do something!
Instead, I scroll endlessly researching mulch prices as if that was really on my mind rather than worry about the meaning of the leader of the free world's threat to wipe out a whole civilization after Jeopardy tonight.
3 comments:
Anita, the mulch of your mind is burying many of us. I appreciate how you have turned the purchase of that which nurtures growth, unappealing though it may be in a pile on your driveway forcing you to "do something" (love that!), into a meditation on the destruction we are witnessing. Your ending is a gut punch: Jeopardy indeed!
If only those with power would nurture life and let it grow and blossom instead of smothering it and wiping it out. arjeha
Anita, thank you for capturing the cognitive dissonance of the preparing for the beauty of spring and worrying about war. I saw your poetic version at EthicalELA and loved that as well.
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