Milwaukee’s Own Organic Fertilizer

Today I buried another 30 or so flower bulbs in my effort to plant over 120 bulbs this fall around my house. I placed over each bulb a little mixture of castings, coir and Milwaukee’s own Milorganite. After packing some of the original soil on this mix I topped it with wood chips and watered each bulb. With all the perennials already planted, next spring and early summer my yards should be blooming with color. My hope is that the bulbs I am burying now in the fall will rise in the spring.

Some of the bulbs and seeds I am planting these days are in words or pictures. Today I heard from the editorial staff of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel that in tomorrow’s newspaper they are publishing my letter to the editor called Crumbs from the Table of Rich. You can read my letter about the mental health parity bill just passed by Congress at the Hope To Healing, a mental health and spirituality ministry.

At dinner tonight my wife, son and I were blessed with the presence of a family we recently met. They, parents and two youth, and we share a lot in common, the least not being many friends, a background in the Catholic Worker movement, the joy of gardening and experience with mental illnesses in our families. The seventeen-year-old son shared a love of music and art similar to my adult son, Peter. Also the eight-year-old girl and I discovered we both really like Sponge Bob Square Pants. Lots of past bulbs both families had buried came to new life tonight.

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