In gardening, plants do both alive and dead/hibernating better than any Schrodinger's cat. We see it every winter before they come back in the spring. Or a pack of seeds. My favorite apple tree has been struggling the past two years from getting whacked by the yard guy’s weed eater on the trunk. It’s a fantastic tree so copsing it in hopes of seeing it regrow healthy from the root stock. A great book on this agricultural topic, Olives: The Life and Lore of a Noble Fruit by Mort Rosenblum is worth reading. Olive trees are basically immortal, beautiful, and delicious.
The apple tree trunk is green and it’s a fighter. Time will tell. When one door closes, another opens. And plants often bounce back. Thanks neighbors for all the raised English flower beds for the backyard in the meantime. Assembly time. Planting cosmos, dahlias, and these beautiful teddy bear sunflowers. The mulch holding in the new soil in the rains we’ve been getting rocks. No more weird flooding spots in the backyard. Raised beds are the fancy version of the traditional terracing which you see in European gardens as they are kinder on knees and backs.
Copsing the tree and hammering together beds beats plowing through the Epstein files and examining the occult fashion business against personal experience which was pretty positive, not creepy. Worked for Belks in early 20s. The two owners were Christian brothers so maybe just dodge a bullet, but as a young single woman, we did fashion shows. Bosses would give all the models a nice change of free clothing, food, and bonuses. Not going to pretend everything was perfect. Male college students were generally given full-time employment which came with an extra 20% pay raise, health insurance, and benefits, but still look fondly back on that time. While most things and events still hold up to inspection today, some do not. One specifically, our oldest wholesale vendor account which I’ve loved for years with museums, had occult Luciferian symbols on its logo and occult iconography for casting magic curses so canceled the account and got rid of the vendor. It was pretty depressing to realize as only had positive experiences with them, but once found out, walked away.
Sorry guys, even we screw up and we don’t know it all. Please forgive us. There’s so many good things planned and great people in our area. Cutting down a failing tree to give it a second chance and planting beautiful flower beds is a good metaphor for life at the moment. May you be blessed.