GP Box 02/14/09
The old salad greens in the GP box, although picked many times, still grow, but my hope is in the newly planted ones that are starting to grow. The old greens will, after a few more pickings, start to taste bitter while the new ones will grow and be ready to be picked over and over again.
My original camera lens that has served me well no longer works on automatic focus. My new used camera lens works just fine and hopefully will last me as long as the old one.
All life is constantly changing and needs to be renewed, be it with new salad seeds or camera lens.
This week and this anniversary year we celebrate the work and life of Charles Darwin, who was one of the first to develop the theory of evolution. Darwin’s “natural selection” is often interpreted as “survival of the fittest”, where it really is creatures that adapt and change with the times and conditions that evolve.
This may explain why Charles Darwin, near the end of his life, was so fascinated by Earthworms. “Earthworms in general have been around for 120 million years, evolving during the time of the dinosaurs. They enrich and aerate the soil; Charles Darwin found that worms turn over the top six inches (15 cm) of topsoil every 20 years.” (Wikipedia). There are thousands of species of worms; about 2,700 of them are earthworms. So worms are one of the few creatures that keep evolving and adapting but continue to do the same work, aerating soil, reproducing, eating and making castings.
Worms are not green, but they show us how creatures have changed; worms do not have brains, but by adapting to conditions and times grow as a species. In the spirit of sustainability, worms are green and growing.
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