Cory from New Life Farm is filling in with tomatoes while we wait for ours to kick into gear. Here's the farmily serenading them so they ripen a bit quicker.
The little book of stoicism is becoming quite the theme in my life lately. Stoic philosophy teaches embracing the impermanence of things. That we should think of everything as “borrowed from the world” and that the world can take anything back at any time. Or something like that. Basically that we shouldn’t feel entitled to anything.
And so I am practicing a stoic approach to blueberries. We tried to cover them to protect them from freezing temperatures while blooming several years ago. It was a disaster. With spring freezing temperatures inevitably comes wind and the covers just beat up the bushes, perhaps knocking as many blossoms off as would have otherwise frozen. So we decided, without knowing it, to be stoic about them. If we get them, we get them, if not…oh well. We’ve been lucky ever since.
Until this year. So I’m trying to draw wisdom from the stoics as I look upon a lost crop of blueberries. Sigh, we are guaranteed nothing. Sigh, we were lucky to have them in past years and in future years, but we are not blessed with blueberries this year. Sigh. Life will go on. We’ll just have fewer desserts this year.
