Rain, cold and snow continue to postpone spring. I have the seeds but hesitant even to plant seeds in the unheated sun room. Hopefully the perennials outside will patiently wait to grow and the seeds can be planted soon inside and grow faster outside. The new Worm Box system given to me last winter should help. Worms continue to work inside to make castings, a natural fertilizer that can speed up growing.
I used to think we had no control over the weather or Mother Nature. Now I know better and sadly the message is that we are harming the environment. Earth Day is coming soon and it does not look like what are seriously going to do something about the destruction of the environment.
April is also Mental Health Awareness month. There is a lot of talk about mental health but like the environment it is what we do not what we say that matters. The stigma of mental illness still plagues us and we do not really consider it an illness like other illnesses, like cancer or heart disease. People with mental illnesses or brain diseases do not get the same care and resources as we give other illnesses and diseases.
If we neglect Mother Earth and a major illness for human beings we will pay in terms of natural disasters and more suffering and death. We gardeners maybe able to work around a late spring but we humans cannot work around stigma and a neglected environment.
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