Back to basics

My hope is to have one plant yield something edible. I do not have a green thumb but I am trying to make friends with plant life. I am doing my best to get back to basics and learn some old fashioned mad skills. The more stuff we strip away and the less we depend on things and the more we want to depend on ourselves. It's really an issue of control and ownership of our life. These baby cucumber seedlings represent a new beginning for us, a return to our roots and a lesson to our children.  They are a metaphor for our new beginning. The more I learn about how to keep these delicate little seeds alive and growing the more I appreciate how vulnerable our minds and bodies are to our environment. I feel at times as though I am weaning myself off of a hand-feed, preprogrammed materialistic lifestyle. I feel closer to home than I have before. Not in my space but in my head.