My front porch is nothing fancy. Tucked away on a six-acre farm an hour’s drive from the nearest Whole Foods, it’s a plain ’40s-era slab of concrete and brick under a modest overhang supported by scrolled iron posts.
But it looks out on a meadow where wrens and wood thrushes sing. A peach tree at one end provides shade while swallowtails, bees, and a hundred other pollinators dance among the zinnias and Mexican sunflowers. Hummingbirds sip from the purple hyacinth bean vines that curve lazily through the scrollwork.
I may live far from the madding crowd, but sitting on my porch, I’m fully connected to the web of life.
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