Her Abuela and My Bobutė

 

I can relate to almost everything Rhina P. Espaillat feels and thinks about gardening.  I was not that kind to worms as she is.  I just toss them out of the way.  But I will think of Rhina's poem and treat them with care for now on.  The weeds get pulled and burned.  After all, I am not a gardening fanatic!

I do think of my grandmother when I garden.  She had a green thumb.  She was in her 70's when she had a stroke while climbing one of her fruit trees.  She died then.  I'm that age now, so I don't climb up too high.