Death, Resurrection, and Gardening

Poet Stanley Kunitz died two weeks ago at the great age of 100. A long and happy life, despite his father's suicide shortly before Stanley was born.

Here's a memorable quote from "The Wild Braid:"

"Death and life (are) inextricably bound to each other. One of my feelings about working the land is that I am celebrating a ritual of death and resurrection. Every spring I feel that. I am never closer to the miraculous than when I am grubbing in the soil."