This quote makes me think of the butterflies and hummingbirds and lightening bugs that grace the woods around our Adirondack home. Each year, we buy geraniums to go with our perennial flowers, and these creatures return as if these were beacons for their journey. All we have to do is sit on our porch and enjoy their beauty. This year, we’re especially thankful for these visits amidst the relative isolation of these mountains, and for the safe practices that everyone around here adheres to. Unlike many places we see in the news, the small business proprietors around here encourage masks and distancing: they don’t want the virus to surge and be forced to close again. So, they tend their shops like gardeners tend their plantings and these practices attract the customers. It isn’t magic: people, like all nature’s creatures, will go where they’re welcome and safe. Mend and tend to your gardens today.
Mário de Miranda Quintana (1906 – 1994): Brazilian poet and translator.
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