My Inception
In the beginning, we read that God has created a garden. A beautiful and lovely place filled with overflowing abundance; a Basil of seed-bearing plants and every variety of fruit-bearing tree. God looked upon his creation and knew it was good. There he placed Adam and Eve to steward the garden. When I go back to my beginning, there was also a garden. It wasn’t the Garden of Eden, but to me, it was mesmerising and enchanting, an abundant place filled with life and wonder. My garden encompassed a small plot directly across from my little house. A simple chain link fence was the only barrier containing the tangle of tomato vines and assorted rainbow rows of vegetables and fragrant herbs. When the gate was opened and I was permitted access into my primeval forest, something magical happened. That garden became my personal Garden of Eden. The woman who lovingly tended and nurtured that garden was, surprisingly, not God (though in my immature, kid mind only a great creator could build...