The Eden Project

Among the surefire failures a person can concoct, trying to build Eden with a partner ranks high. You believe you cannot fault yourself for attempting this big job again and again, but idealism without self-knowledge is so devious. Try giving a seed to someone else to propagate. Watch them mercilessly, while they do not do your job. Try asking a neighbor to water your lawn, for the rest of your life. Try lobbing a tennis ball at a concrete wall and call it tennis. Keep calling it tennis until the joy drains from your entire body.

A graduate of several Eden projects, I found a man who already had his own Eden. Voila! This did not work. I’m the one who needs Eden. I’m the one requiring garden space. My own innocence flowers there. I can’t give that innocence away or trade it to anyone, loan it or possibly even share it.

I am giving myself my own rib. Then we’ll talk partners.

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