thank you NPR

i came home a little late today and decided to check my email before getting down to the business of cleaning up last week's mess after being gone for the weekend. almost as an afterthought i turned on All Things Considered just in time to hear a story about Adrienne Young. it was one of those fortuitous coincidences that made me feel that my life must be heading in some sort of general direction instead of just taking me in circles. Adrienne Young is a musician and strong advocate of sustainable agriculture, community gardening, buying local, growing organic, etc. in short, everything that i would like to be involved in myself. her singer-songwriter style and her musical themes drew me as well. i followed some of the links on her website and found the American Community Gardening Association, FoodRoutes.org, and Peaceful Valley, an organic garden supply company whose catalog i cannot wait to browse through. if i had turned the radio on five minutes later i would have missed the whole thing.

while browsing those sites i felt a tug in my center, a longing for these things to be my life, for growing things to be what i do. lately i have decided to make my daily prayer a prayer for direction, for myself and for my husband. he has many opportunities on the horizon; i, on the other hand, am dreaming of the time i can either afford to go back to school or quit work altogether. i don't know if hearing a story on the radio is the nudge of God telling me that i'll get there someday, but i'd like to think it wasn't for nothing.