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Tracy is braver than me. I don’t like these guys, but have to admit that this one is pretty magnificent to look at.

There among the cucumber cubes, you can see the wild precursors to the cucumber. If you look closely. When I saw my first one, I thought it was a reptile egg. So cute!!!

Six kids at 7-9 buckets apiece. Let’s see, that’s 5 pesos apiece. That’s mucho dinero!

Last Sunday, Tracy put out the message, to the youngsters of the Kalpulli, that she would pay 5 pesos for each bucket of grass clippings the children brought. We need clippings to mulch the garden, and also to cover the compost (Tracy also advertises as a local dump site for organic kitchen waste).

Tracy made lunch today out of what she had in her garden. Can you see the blossoms? The orange ones are Aloe Vera blossoms, which are abundant everywhere this time of year, and the red ones are hummingbird flowers. Also in the salad are fennel, arugula, radish greens, and chicory. I’ve also put the little okras on the table so you can admire them. The other bowl has young coconut in it. Yum.

And we can examine our own dreams of what feeds our spirits, what lights our internal fires, and lead our lives, a day at a time, praying for guidance for our next steps, and our next.

We see her boys, who we miss very much, playing in the open spaces, the woods, and the neighborhoods, as Tasha finds her niche as a healer and a gardener.

So there are a good number of rooms, small and large, all surrounding a central garden. Tracy and I discuss our youngest sister, Tasha, who has a gift with plants, two young boys, and skills as a massage therapist and CraneoSacral therapist.

Over the years, perhaps teenagers testing (or demonstrating) their physical strength. Those teenagers are off doing things in the world of adults now, and the wall is yet to be repaired.