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I'm Amanda.

And I'm Julia. And Amanda,

spring is here officially. I mean, officially it was here a month ago. But it's starting to actually

feel like spring as of this recording. And I love this time of here. I love seeing the trees go

from brown to yellow to green to red and all of the buds starting to

appear and then leaf. I love seeing my daffodils sprout out of the ground. I love my crocuses. I love

every early spring plant because it is a excellent reminder that I will be gardening soon. You are so right,

Julia, and with every single year that goes by, I am more and more confused about how it is that

the light in the world affects me so much as a living creature. And when there is more light later,

I feel great. And when my

plants respond by putting out new growth and metaphorically shaking off the dust, God, I'm excited.

This year, in fact, I am taking over a garden bed at our local soup kitchen. They have like a food pantry

soup kitchen type situation at like a very cool queer church.

And in the backyard, they have a bunch of raised beds where they're like, I don't know what to do with

this. You want one? And I was like, absolutely. So I am going to be for the first time ever,

because I love to garden, but I've so far had an illegal roof and now a fire escape that is also

illegal, but it's three feet wide by two

feet wide, not very big. So apart from our garden share where I get to come and hang out in your

backyard, now I'll have something in my own neighborhood where I can go and grow all kinds of food

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