Brenda looked out of the window first thing this AM and saw two deer crossing the lawn. This in itself is not very unusual but they have been scarce all summer and here they are now in October all over the area.
Time to put out compost today, so out it went. Including some long suffering homemade pea soup. Now this soup sat on the front porch through many long cool nights, but not cool enough to prevent it going over the top. In the winter, we use the outdoors as an extended fridge and things can last a long time. This is more possible when using pressure cookers. They seal hermetically and are supposed to remain sterile, but to my surprise there were bugs in the soup. I gathered two huge armfuls of leaves that went into the compost bin first and then soup and peelings. Then it struck me staring into this complex mess that there is something amazing about all this turning into earth, into the rich black mould that we put on the garden, not a trace of these repulsive individual ingredients showing up. How does this work? Is that how the original earth was formed? I put this awe aside and made breakfast.
Two more mice invaders caught in traps and disposed of, traps reset.
Fall is also the time of Soccer in my background and today I watched Norwich City defeat Arsenal, for the first time at home since 1984. A beautiful day in Carrow and the Canaries playing a level of soccer that surprised everybody.
Fall is also the time of poignant transition where the vibrant life of Spring and Summer morphs into aging and dying and we think about time and mortality. Today I learned about a group of human wolves in sheep’s clothing called Euthanasia Prevention Coalition, what a monstrous concept.
These people who have the temerity to lie about who they are and to conceal the religions they represent, in order to control how other people should die, NO MATTER WHAT THEY WANT FOR THEIR END OF LIFE CHOICES. The horror, the horror. We don’t need to seek monsters in movies from Hollywood, or in a guide to Psychopaths, they are everywhere in public life controlling our personal life choices. There is no possible tiny fragment of justification for these presumptuous ideologues dominating our lives. Anyway go to this EPC website and judge for yourselves. For myself, when I want to die I want the right to do it with whatever resources are available and which resources must be legalized.
