“Garden Metaphor”

Var det någon annan som följt den senaste säsongen av "Orange is the new black"? Jag såg sista avsnittet i går och blev rörd av "Reds" högläsning av ett citat från en bok. Ämnet tangerar i det aktuella ämnet "växtdödlighet". Hon läser ur en bok av Anne Lamott’s Bird by Bird: "Some Instructions on Writing and Life". Borde man beställa den, den fanns på Adlibris....

“The garden is one of the two great metaphors for humanity.

The garden is about life and beauty and the impermanence of all living things.

The garden is about feeding your children, providing food for the tribe.

It’s part of an urgent territorial drive that we can probably trace back to animals storing food.

It’s a competitive display mechanism, like having a prize bull, this greed for the best tomatoes and English tea roses.

It’s about winning; about providing society with superior things; and about proving that you have taste, and good values, and you work hard.

And what a wonderful relief, every so often, to know who the enemy is.

Because in the garden, the enemy is everything: the aphids, the weather, time.

And so you pour yourself into it, care so much, and see up close so much birth, and growth, and beauty, and danger, and triumph.

And then everything dies anyway, right?

But you just keep doing it.”


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