Why does gardening become a common pastime when people grow older? Is it because after years of dealing with humans it’s just easier to spend time with something that needs attention, gives sustenance, and enhances your world but doesn’t talk back? Possibly for some of us. And for others, maybe, when age creeps its way in, we innately feel the need to cultivate and encourage life, especially if that life is perennial, because ours, very much, is not.
