Sunflower Sprouts Ready to Harvest

The start of this new month of December was not so good. The health of someone, close to me, took a turn for the worse, and the drums of war were ringing over our land as the war and violence in Afghanistan is to be escalated. With all the sickness and violence in the air it was hard to stay at peace.

However, there were signs of hope today. This afternoon the sun came out and the sun room was full of heat. I planted a tray of sun flower seeds for sprouts in the sun room today. I had lost the seed bag instructions but remembered enough of how to plant them in the tray and cover it for days until the sprouts appear.

Also I drove my friend Ella of Ella’s patch quilts on an errand today and she told me how someone had called her about a patch quilt that got her number from the wiki website that I created for her. Also we talked about putting her corn bread muffins together with my homemade stew tomorrow to create a dish, cornbread and stew. When I was I was a Jesuit seminarian at St. Bonifacius, MN this was our special Sunday breakfast for four years.

It was one of those up and down days. I was down hearing the President saying how by escalating the war we will end it successfully, and down further by watching an video on Military.com showing a B-1 plane droping 500lb bombs during a firefight in Kandahar, Afghanistan 2008. Senseless killing in the central city, by B-1 bombers, by silent drones over villages in Pakistan is still senseless killing and only leads to more death and violence.

With all this death and illness moving in it is time to purchase more sprout seeds and watch them grow up in darkness and then in light: healthy food for life.

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