Holidays mark events. Memorial Day asks us to to think about society, about war, about the soldiers who for good reason or bad did what they had to do to defend, protect or overcome. Soldiers, by the very idea of fighting for or against, are coming from two extremely opposite loyalties. We must honor them for their valor and their faith in their beliefs, their commitment to a society. They, after all, pay the biggest price.
The Sunday before Memorial Day asks me to plant the garden:
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I recognize those green leaf things. They were in my version of a “garden” just before the termite people came around.