May 19, 2025

Today in the orchard

Apple seedlings, May 19, 2025

Pruning, grafting, weeding, and harvesting in the orchard provides lots of time to think about life and to have good conversations with companions when we’re fortunate enough to have them with us. Today is the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Malcolm X. Although he died sixty years ago, he had many interesting things to say about life, much of it quite relevant today, and every day. 

 “There is no better teacher than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed…”