seed saving/"rest"
salvia at 9:50pm on september 29th, one month ago, i opened up a new post in blogger and typed the words "seed saving" into the text entry box. i intended to sit in the dark dining hall, take some pleasantly deep breaths, and enjoy settling into the rhythms of thinking and typing whilst reflecting on a day spent on my porch in the sun, sorting and processing the savings of my first full season farming. perhaps i would even drink some tea. a quaint thought which never quite materialized, as that evening*, like the many which preceded it, i somehow or other descended back into the haze of often frenetic busy-ness that has characterized, until quite recently, the last two or so months of my life. *aside 1: likely on this occasion, i remembered that i needed to purchase a mattress, a goal which i had been trying to accomplish for several weeks. following not one but four telephone calls to my mother to confirm that the dimensions sounded correct (adjusting back an inch in both wi
