Living Together – In Green
Sunday, 5 October 2014
It is October the fifth. Sunday.
Today everybody is making their choice. We are also making ours’. To the
responsibility of citizens who are voting for their future, we are adding
several very important elements – a hoe, a spade, gardening scissors, a broom,
a pair of protective gloves, deserted garden, a little efforts, a lot of hope
and faith that the good intentions and the sincere impulse will lead to the
positive change.
We start the implementation of the second
project under the program “Green Sofia” of the Capital Municipality.
In
the beginning was ….clean-up of the area. Only a half an hour had passed when
five huge bags got filled up and the garbage inside them was ready to leave
it’s “luxury shelter”. Yes, this lovely garden is too big luxury for it – it
belongs elsewhere, not in the grass, under the pine trees or in the lush
bushes.
Then follows ….the noise of the petrol chainsaw and the mower. They help us to release the trees and bushes of the choke growths and thorns. At both ends of the project area quickly grow two high hills of green forest waste, which is to go to the future composters. As if everything around slowly starts breathing more freely.
We stick hoes in the hard, almost stone,
earth and succeed to shape the first flower-beds for the flower islets. We try
to clean and make visible again the initial outlines of the lawns.
Short break – slice of pizza, cup of tea ….
that much one needs to continue on with refreshed power.
Children have their children‘s
tasks ….. and their children‘s tools. The pile of sand, where they love to
play, eventually they form into an unexpected sand installation :).
Around five in the afternoon we collect the
traces of ourselves and we leave the place. Next Sunday we again will be here.
Everybody who likes to spend their Sundays like this is welcome. We have more
surprises (besides the flower islets). And what surprises may be awaiting for
us….? We will see. :)
