Personal Perspective: My yard was my emotional safe space. Then heat, mosquitos, and a cat disrupted the peace, challenging my naive image of nature.
Summer 2023: The air is hot, and my mood is dark. Days of rain. Rain. Raining for days. Now stories of burst dams, vegetables rotting in flooded fields, food drowned, unharvested. Every day more heat records broken.anxious
Yet I can’t resist the call of the outdoors. I add a broad-brimmed hat, long-sleeved shirt, and long pants and try again.I see a thistle growing tall above the grass. It’s blooming! And there’s a hummingbird hovering over one of its purple flowers! Had I encountered one of its spike-leaved early shoots even a year ago, I’d have yanked it out immediately. This year I let it be. Now it’s almost as high as my chin.
I’m reminded what a privileged life allows me this joy: time to wander the yard, air conditioning, having a house and a yard at all. Adding to my privilege is a small screened-in gazebo, where Will and I used to love eating dinner, savoring cool evening air, watching the sun go down, safe from mosquitos who always appeared at dusk.
Meanwhile, another pair began a nest from scratch. First I noticed blades of grass set on the ledge of an eave on the other side of the gazebo. Soon, along with small leaves and twigs the grass had been woven into a nest. Again I watched the birds take turns sitting on it. A few weeks later, I invited two members of a Quaker committee to meet in the gazebo. We were delighted to see three tiny fuzzy-headed chicks wildly chirping, waving beaks at their parents, who took turns feeding them.
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