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"New Project!!! 30 Days of Descriptions" -> (16 skipped) -> "Day Seventeen: Biological Art" -> "Day Eighteen: Big Spender"
Day Nineteen: Midwifery
by honeygloom
Seven o’clock, I’m missing the All Star game, and it’s 104 degrees outside. I am greeted in my garden by a cascade of yellow, spotted leaves down one side of the big plant. Am I over watering, under watering, is it just too hot? I don’t know whether or not to be alarmed, the fruit looks ok. Why is it called husbandry, when one nurses something through reproduction? An online etymology dictionary says it’s from an Old Norse combination of hus meaning ‘house’ and bondi meaning ‘peasant or landholder’. So that rolls head of the house and master of the land all in to one word. I’d rather call my gardening midwifery and aid reproduction as opposed to lording over it.
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