Promised Earrings

As promised in this posting the other day I put three Easy Essays by Peter Maurin on the Nonviolent Worm web domain. There are a number of other promises out there that I have made to others or myself that I need to prioritize and keep. My promise to help Marna and Dawn build the DMZ garden on a vacant lot has an end in sight. They have been dedicated in establishing the garden and my present role is mainly making raised beds and providing them with castings for fertilizer. There are only about four or five more raised beds to make and with my worm condo almost ready to sift and the new GP home model worm condo almost ready to put in operation this is one promise that I can keep by then end of the summer and move on. My role in projects like this and others in the past is to be involved in the organizing and establishing of the project and then move on. I have a number of other projects to move on to like finishing my pictorial essays on Venezuela, the promotion of worm condos for community gardens, the A.I.R. home insulation project for next winter, and on and on. There are many promises to keep, but before I sleep each night I need to remember my commitments to God, family and friends and self. These need to be always the number one priorities when making or fulfilling promises.

My granddaughter was promised pierced ears once she was completely potty -trained and accident free. That day has come and today when we met her, my daughter-in-law and two grandsons ½-way between our home and theirs, she proudly showed my wife and me her pierced earrings. My two grandsons are staying with us over the weekend and I promised to take them fishing today, which I did, even though there were no fish to be had at the lake we fished. Tomorrow I have promised to take them on bike ride on the Oak Leaf (Grape Leaf) bike trail to pick grape leaves, and with weather permitting and God willing we will do it. They, in return, promised to help me with the garden and to start building the “rain garden” in front of the house, and weather permitting and God willing I am sure they will keep their promise.

There are so many promises to make and keep but now it is time for sleep.

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