Email to a new friend, we\u2019ve been exchanging biographical info. \u201cI wanted to explain that in asking what you’ve read and studied and done, etc. is not to see how “well educated” or well read you\u00a0are, rather to have a context within which to\u00a0take in\u00a0what you say to me and have a point of reference so I may understand you.\u00a0 I don’t give you my bibliography and resume of metaphysical\u00a0grokkage to impress you, I simply mention them so if you know the topics, you know where I’m coming from and you know how I am using the terms.\u00a0 It’s like you discussing sound and music with friends.\u00a0 You and I will not have as deep and complexly layered a discussion about it as you and another musician might.\u00a0 You and he would both share a knowledge that goes far beyond my superficial understanding.\u00a0 You and he are aware of nuances I know nothing of, and you and he share ‘the secret language” which completely escapes me. That’s all,\u00a0I’m just trying to discover what secret languages we already mutually share, if any, in the interest of getting to know each other.
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On the way to bed I looked out my bedroom window and saw the land had dried enough so that I could go rescue a fallen archway.\u00a0\u00a0 The archway was made from the oak that came down on my back porch in 2004. My yard guy cut it in half, saving the giant philodendron (or whatever they are) and “planting” the halves in the ground about a foot.\u00a0 They came down in the storm.\u00a0 The trunks are rotted anyway.\u00a0 So I pulled the plants away from the rotted inside and made a new pathway and laid them alongside it.\u00a0 Then I just raked the dead stumps etc around it to mulch it up nice and\u00a0covered lots of the philo with mounds of good dirt so they will stay alive.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Today was the first day the ground was dry enough to walk on and not sink in up to my ankles in mush, so I wanted to clean it up before the next storm comes along.<\/p>\n
Sleep is forgotten for now.\u00a0 I went out and took pics of the yard, which I do a lot.\u00a0 I like there to be a symbolic something you walk under to step into the space.\u00a0 Right now I’ve just got a length of bamboo stretched between a pine and a tree branch in the east garden.\u00a0 I moved a plaster\u00a0 angel grotto farther back and to the right, and raked a new pathway of sorts.\u00a0 Giant philodendrons are to the right and left of the swept walkway, just lying on the ground with dirt and mulch atop, waiting for the rains.<\/p>\n
One of my bigger bamboo stalks broke about 25 feet up, I can reach it to pull on it but am not strong enough to twist it free.\u00a0 I will try again after I’ve slept.\u00a0 My bamboo is going crazy!\u00a0 I have 5 new babies that I can see.\u00a0 Possibly more, since I mulch up about a foot above the ground around it.\u00a0 Bamboo grows so fast you can hear it.<\/p>\n