realization comes slower, that …

… this is an interim period. Between proviso and disorder. Knowledge-banking proceeds along unfamiliar trajectories: how to frame a window; how to mitigate water flow problems; how to give native plants the space to flourish; what seeds to harvest; how much moisture in the worm farm; where’s the ground water coming from; what are the general effects of control on the landscape; what it’s like to have neighbors (in the long term); what it is like to learn again; how to fit into a small town at the end of the road; and so on.