February 14 2026 Work Party

We rooted through the earth searching for heart-shared root balls. Marveled at nature’s repeating shapes, no words to adequately express the wonder of it. The woody crown of the root morphing into the four chambers of the heart, the deep tap root mirroring the superior vena cava, fibrous roots our arteries and veins. I see echoes of us in the bare branches of the trees against the winter blue sky and osoberry buds criss crossing their way up slender, reddish-brown branches. We dig and decide some root balls look like other organs, intestines, a stomach, a gall bladder. We are everywhere in nature. Nature is everywhere in us.