Yesterday my wife and I took a hike at Lapham Peak State park, formed by a glacier in the Kettle Moraine State Forest. It was a warm but beautiful sunny day and wandering the trails in the park was relaxing and good exercise.

Today I spent nine hours driving a friend to a hospital, waiting while she had day surgery and then driving her home. One of the benefits of the long wait today was I had a chance to read a good portion of my friend Jim Forest’s biography of Dorothy Day, the co-founder of the Catholic Worker Movement. The book is called “All is Grace. I was fascinated to learn that Dorothy, a person I admire, was a gardener and had written articles about gardening.

Yesterday was a day in Nature and today was a day in the technology of a hospital. In between there is Dorothy Day, a gardener and writer, who did the works of mercy and works of peace in daily life. She balanced the technology or urban life with the nature of rural life.

Recently a friend called one of my emails “well balanced.” I thought about this and think the balance is always between nature and technology, the urban and rural.

My front law raised garden is a work of technology. In front of the garden is a row of flowers. Now yellow lilies lie in a row between the raised garden and concrete sidewalk. Like the lilies lined between the concrete blocks of technology our life is balancing act between Nature and Technology. Like the lilies we need to flower in the in between.

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