Absolutely beautiful. It shows your 'roots' are firmly in the soil, seeds planted at childhood. No wonder you choose a life of gardening even now.
The way you describe everything is so beautifully evocative. Just a gorgeous piece of writing and EXACTLY the kind of piece I was hoping to read.
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What an incredible memory! Thanks so much for tagging me @riverflows. I agree about your roots, @alt3r you certainly had a good "grounding". I loved reading this. It took me to your childhood as one of the children laughing in the garden and splashing in the river. Special memory
I couldn't even imagine how much that means to me nowadays.
Was you the one hunting crabs in the deep?:D Every single word is much appreciated, thank you for your feedback !LUV
Exactly! Me and the crabs 😎
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Thank you so much @alt3r for sharing such an intimate moment of your history and memories with us and @riverflows for guiding my eyes to the post! Wow, so beautiful and I really love the aspect of communal gardening though. Getting the whole community to gather and grow and chat and probably cook together! Here in Sunny South Africa, we live in segregated gated communities and the idea of community and community gardening is something foreign to us (who live the western lifestyle at least). Getting people, not just the young ones, to share in growing food would be such an awesome thing to do here! Thanks again for sharing a bit of hope in your intimate memory.
Hey there!
Thank you for taking your time and reading my lines :]
Well, even tho my country belongs to the western world and its way of life, at least now, it was not like that before, especially in the countryside.
People helped each other far more than is the case today, unfortunately that whole area is now empty, few people still have a garden there, but the most common are plots with large corn and fodder crops. The locals are no longer so close to each other, I don't know what has changed (or I do), however the memories are there to last and to be protected from oblivion.
Luckily you have these memories. I am not sure what caused it in your case, but where I live people have become so self-centered and focused on themselves. People cannot even think about growing something in public because they will either destroy it, or they will steal it. It is such a sad turn of events. Community is so important.
There is your answer, selfishness, recklessness I can go on and on, however I'm sure we are on the same page when it comes about community.
It's on the global level almost unavoidable.
Maybe one day we will again return to a better world where people will join in growing communal foods. I have this utopian idea in which everyone helps grow food on the streets; trees are planted to provide shade for cara but the fruits and nuts are used for sustenance. Where trees cannot be planted, berries and leafy greens are cultivated. Alas, one might hope for such a future. Thanks you for the reply! Stay well.
Thank you for such an inspirational challenge @riverflows, happy it sounds and looks the way it does in my memory! (:
Hahah great tune to emphasis the nostalgia of your childhood! Im loving reading the responses so far and hope I can come up with some good prompts for next month!!
Yeah, it's like a curse when kid rushing to grow up and vice versa,but it's priceless to have those memories and experience!