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Dear Mom…<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been three years, Mom, and your old neighbors still don\u2019t understand your garden in Greenville: lush southern magnolia; evergreen gordonia; dirt brimming with native pollinators, snakes and bees. You made it an Eden. I\u2019ve done my best to care for the plants and animals you left behind, but folks here think it\u2019s overgrown, too wild. Then again, I\u2019ve always felt safe in wild places.<\/p>\n

When I was a boy growing up in the house Dad built in the Blue Ridge Mountains, we\u2019d hike through the deep woods together. You\u2019d say, \u201cLook, a robin\u2019s nest,\u201d or \u201cRobert, up there! That\u2019s a Carolina wren.\u201d You knew everything about the outdoors\u2014which birds called to one another through the trees, how to turn creeping vines into baskets. You were a country girl, through and through.<\/p>\n

Your family\u2014Swedish immigrants who\u2019d learned to coax wheat stalks from the earth\u2014learned everything they could about South Carolina, but even to them, you were peculiar. Maybe because you always believed that nature didn\u2019t just serve us, but was part of us.<\/p>\n

From you, I learned to never take more than I needed<\/a>. You\u2019d take an umbrella and hang ornaments on it before you\u2019d cut down a healthy pine in December. I like to think that at four foot eleven, closer to the earth than most of us, you felt things that we didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Remember that New York transplant, the former college athlete who bought the house next door? I still laugh about how you caught him clinging to the lowest branch of a tree, pointing in horror at a snake. You pulled white opera gloves over your elbows\u2014your thick gardening gloves had gone missing\u2014and carried the snake to your yard. \u201cThis snake is welcome in my garden,\u201d you said to our new neighbor. He clearly didn\u2019t know the difference between a venomous cottonmouth and a harmless kingsnake. \u201cHe\u2019ll be useful in recycling my moles and voles.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Young
Robert holds Crisco<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Animals knew they could trust you, like the injured chipmunk you rescued and all the stray and feral cats that would follow you out of the woods and into our home. I shouldn\u2019t have been surprised when you saved Crisco the groundhog from a pack of dogs in our yard, back when we lived in the mountains, clanging pots until they dispersed. He knew you were on his side\u2014even when he gobbled up all the lettuce you\u2019d grown to make Swedish soup.<\/p>\n

You tended to everyone, Mom, but especially Dad and me. When Dad lost his mobility and had trouble moving around the house in the mountains, you convinced him to move to Greenville. Were you heartbroken to leave those woods? You didn\u2019t show it. You woke up every morning at five to tend to your new garden<\/a>. Your faith held you steady, wherever you were, God always present as you watered your plants. \u201cHe talks to me,\u201d you\u2019d say.<\/p>\n

You know I\u2019ve led a winding life. Boarding school to college to graduate school in Massachusetts. I was a banker, a Methodist minister and now a university professor. You never made me feel as if I had to know exactly what I wanted to do. You wanted me to be free, to explore what was out there\u2014much like your animal companions<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Melree
Melree Boggs and Josie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Then Dad died, my marriage ended<\/a> and my dog died, all within six months. You didn\u2019t tell me to move on but let me grieve, remaining close in case I needed you. Just like Josie, our rescue mix, did for you when your dementia took over.<\/p>\n

You were ninety-nine and three months when you passed into the next world. Perhaps the earth held onto you for so long because you understood each other.<\/p>\n

I couldn\u2019t bring myself to sell the Greenville house and have made it my job to care for the property, throwing myself into the cycle of nature<\/a>. Every autumn, I\u2019m reminded of how you\u2019d delight in the changing colors and all the birds that come and go. I sit and watch them build their nests and smile to myself thinking about how you\u2019d look out for the mama birds returning to their babies.<\/p>\n

I miss you, Mom. But in a way, you return to me through the moles and voles, snakes and groundhogs. I\u2019ve been caring for them all, observing and celebrating the beauty and purpose of all God\u2019s creatures. And, of course, tending your misunderstood garden.<\/p>\n

Love, Robert.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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