me going.  And right now very busy--this morning I harvested Japanese eggplants, cabbages, carrots, cherry tomatoes, beets and onions.  Then I have to cook all this stuff---Spanish tortillas, Iranian eggplant/tomato dish called khoresht bademjun, coleslaw, pesto on angel hair, carmelized beets all in the past few days! whew! Plus the garden has many lessons--there are always failures and successes, sometimes disasters, then recovery.  Nothing is every perfect, and nothing is ever permanent.  It is an ever-changing landscape.  There is always a chance to start over and plant again.  This year none of our corn came up in three plantings while everything else was fabulous.  Finally we are getting some shoots and there is still time to get some to harvest.  The harlequin bugs destroyed most of my broccoli but there is plenty of cabbage and eggplant and our tomatoes look fabulous.  Many life lessons in our beautiful garden. time feeling discouraged and depressed for several years when my parents were so ill and I watched their health go downhill slowly but surely.  I watched the cancer ravage their bodies and zap their energy. I watched a dear friend dying as well and then my husband had a host of health problems and so did I. Then slowly but surely, I was able to rise up from those ashes of depression and despair and just do one day at a time and then realized I was laughing and smiling again even if my heart was still broken ..but I was gradually