Reznjun

just finished up my third week on the job. i am glad i took the job. i just never wanted to work for the tribe. i had a few times in the past and didnt like it. too many little power games by some extremely insecure people. this time around i am enjoying it. alot of my misconceptions about the system have cleared up. others were confirmed. but then who said life would be easy.

i have been planting warm weather crops. i think the ground is just warm enough now. it had been cool. i got a kick out of a comment the other day. i was planting corn and a passerby asked who was going to water it. i said i have had a garden for 26 years and i depend on rain. she said they planted corn before and no one took care of it and they didnt get anything. i passed on the opportunity to pick my gear up and quit since i was doomed to failure anyway. instead i told the lady ‘well if it dont grow, it wont be because i didnt try’. she nodded and left. i dont understand the negativity of some people. i know there is no guarantee in gardening but i do it anyway. i dont go into it thinking i will fail. i always bank on having success. our program got a directive from a ‘higher up’ that our gardening WILL succeed this year. it will succeed because i will give it a hellva go. not because some pencil pusher issued a command.

the comment also shows where some are in todays world. i work on a ‘traditional’ (whatever that means) gardening program. long ago they didnt have garden hose and outdoor faucets. they grew crops without them. now some think we can only do things the modern way. no doubt having modern methods available when there is no rain is very beneficial. maybe its not just one or the other.

i gave some of my seed corn to the three tribal gardens. i am all for growing our own corn. our ancestors wouldnt have kept it all these years if they didnt want us to have it. the genetics of it is selected to withstand the extremes of weather conditions. it was heirloom before the term existed. i have 12 105 foot rows of it growing in my garden. so i know there are 4 gardens with the seed i had. i remember an old lady told me ‘corn is our life, once we quit growing it that is the end of our life.’ taken at face value some of our people just let that comment pass. we use corn and pumpkin in most of our ceremonies. they are our sacred foods. i am also planting alot of our indian beans. when i was hired to do a traditional garden i took that to heart.

while i am thinking traditional gardening and recycling cans and plastic untold gallons of oil is spilling into the gulf. i say lets do away with the suspense and hand the oil company a blank check from stimulus money. we reward big businesses failures with hundreds of billions of dollars. after we bail them out they can jack up prices to cover loses and increase their profit. they wont share in profits but are kind enough to pass the costs on to us. the greedy bastards.

sometime this weekend i have to catch up on my yard and garden. the garden is getting weeds and my lawn has to be mowed again. i also have two turtles to clean. some one told me they were looking forward to a 4 day weekend. i said i didnt have a weekend. the days just run into each other. thats okay it is what keeps me going…..