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Show APRIL 4, 2001 - WASATCH COUNTY COURIER iE wir Foal Aa a ~ Repair Lawn Now to Be Ready for Summer arrives and. before crabgrass and other weeds can get the upper hand. Before patching a lawn, Saad back and take an objective look at it. Perhaps the whole lawn needs to be redone, not just spot-patched. Also assess the cause of the bare spots. If, for instance, skunks or moles have been digging around for grubs, avoid future problems by first dealing with the grubs or their furry _ predators. The first step in ee a Lavell is buying seed. Don't grab that old bag of grass seed in the garage. Go out and buy some fresh seed. Don't let economics dictate your choice. eratel up the surface wie a metal | rake and give the soil a gentle, but thorough, soaking. Then sprinkle grass seed over the surface of the prepared ground. Don't skimp. Lightly rake the seeds into the soil. For even better results, sift some of you will need some fill soil. Mix up that previously mentioned over the seeds, burying them an eighth to a quarter-inch deep. To keep the seedbed moist, and the seeds and bare dirt in place, cover the patched area: with a layer of cotton cheesecloth. The seedlings will push up through holes in the Before you dump this mix into the rut, loosen the soil that is already there by sticking a fork straight down into the ground and shimmying the handle back cheesecloth, will and forth. Then fill in the depressions to about an inch higher than ground level soil mix through a half-inch wire mesh right equal parts of good garden soil and - peat moss, leaf mold, or compost. garden Pee and eventually the cheesecloth rot away. Keep to allow for settling. Tamp _ seedbed the soil with the back of a - weeks, and you will soon have a turf strong enough to withstand hot rake as you fill. Se Next, whether or not you ‘had to fill a depression, weather crabgrass. moist and for choke the the out next few summer's : i iatenals to people to emotions, every connection has possible connections of loss of tiger habitat in India at the time its own, and my memory ain’t what it and so I had India on the brain. I also used to be—or maybe just what I want it to be. Some would question if the recognized the Indian motif because the art reminded me of the color insets in the Bhagavad-Gita. | know of that Hindu text because I studied and later taught — world mythology. But I acquired my | EDITOR’S NOTE: ~Due to a producSAT? ion error, the last part Se pa fo ae Matthew . PO Heimburger’s column did not appear last week. The entire column follows. copy of that book by trading a Book of Mormon for it in a supermarket parking lot in Salem, Massachusetts, during my | two-year religious mission for the LDS Church. My teaching partner and I had just come out of the store with some COURIER have an interesting mental exer- -cise for you. Take a familiar item sect of Hinduism: The irony of the situa- see if you can discover precursors and antecedents of the item and its meaning until you finally reach the seed at the beginning. of it all. In other words, use the item to connect the dots of your past. Pll demonstrate: I bought a handpainted tray as a souvenir on my last day in Africa. It is in the “Tinga Tinga” painting style which means highly stylized animal figures and landscapes done in the bright colors of the continent. I like animals, color, and stylized art so I brought it back across three continents—now it sits on a shelf in my room. But I'll dig deeper. The artistic style seems to my untrained eye a com- about my personal history is my reality of Athens, and Grandma’s journal. It. and therefore largely unassailable. And connects Histories, materialism with humanism _ you have the same copyright. . tion was too much to bear for all of us so things “happen for a reason” and that the meeting didn’t last long, but an — some event or meeting may be “fate” or the strength of this exercise is in its free nections back through your past and the exercise are irrelevant. My belief Stegner’s angle of repose, Jung’s collective unconscious, Raphael’s School Tm certainly not the first to think in this way. Many people believe that we desk or off your wall—and study it for acquired it. Now, begin to draw con- relativity, | Herodotus’ can not really know, the objections to without our collective context. juice when exchange of texts seemed appropriate. Now, that’s a lot of detail and maybe is means to you, and finally, how you hindsight. I would reply that since we to teach the beliefs of the Hare Krishna orange two other young men— association, so let me move a little faster: I recognized the Krishna missionaries not because they were common in any of my childhood neighborhoods but because I had seen the movie — it. Or, better yet, pass it on. It is at once the magic of austen S and queues instead of white shirts and and in your house—maybe from your ~ awhile. Ask yourself what it is, what ‘the seeds of success we can duplicate ties—passing out literature and offering donuts our same age but with shaved heads SPECIAL TO THE _ ations from looking back with selective the enlightened, it can teach wisdom, for in discovering the source of wrong action we can correct it, and in finding and spiritualism. It even explains exisBut I am not really concerned with tentialism without having to justify its — exactness of method so much as the - more depressing conclusions. It puts amazing fact that there are such rich us immediately at the center of all exis-_ veins of connection in our lives that we tence, only we must realize that everyrarely examine because we think we thing else is there in the center with have moved on. Well, we have, but not us. It... oh, my head is spinning. I’d bet- - encountered ‘MATTHEW HEIMBURGER - connections are real or are my own cre- s place to lay blame. But in he hands of a bination of Bion and East (alan motifs. I was reading a book about the iF - Connecting the Dots of Your Past— TOM ARI CIR Ee I 28 tes ors nines drier weather | i If your lawn ie bare patches, early spring is a good time to fix them. Seed that is planted early gets established before hotter, possibly | Buy quality seed similar to the kind that is already planted, which should be adapted to the amount of sun, traffic, and maintenance your lawn receives. If the bare spots are depressions caused by tire ruts, for example_ “karma.” But I’m not looking for a grand unifying theory of existence either, today, for such theories suggest predes-tination or at least a world without the excitement of spontaneous agency. No, Tm fascinated by the possibility that everything we have, everything we do, and everything we are is connected to ter do one more exercise to focus. Tarahuamaran carved figurine in the curio cabinet in our living room. Got it on the rim of Barranca Del Cobre — in Mexico in 1994. Was doing volunteer labor in two Tarahuamaran villages with a group of like-minded BYU students. Missed Anna’s and my first | | anniversary because -of it. Remember sitting atop a cliff face thinking about her, knowing that she was probably preparing “dinner for one” in our first little rathole/apartment rented together. Though apart, we married because spoof Airplane in 1980. I watched that - | everything else in some kind of cosmic movie at Steve Tolley’s house in Heber dance. If that is true, then the adage that we respected each other's beliefs and City because his family had a VCR and says that one kind act can change the commitments—so I knew she underalso because we were hiding out in his world is not just wistful, but true. At all stood. ButI also learned in absentia basement. We were inside because we times and in all directions. We are the that our commitment to each other had thrown mudpies at a car, had been summation of a vast past—both individ- - must always be first. Our reunion a few caught, and had been duly chastised. ual and collective. We are dwarfed by - weeks later was grand, and one I refuse We threw mudpies because it wasthat heritage and our subconscious conto give any details about. Summer and we were bored. And so, nections to it. But we also have the Suddenly the wooden figurine cutting it all off right there, you could power today and now to change the desseems endowed with great powers of say that that boredom set events in tiny of it all. These hidden connections love and memory. No wonder it sits motion that would later lead to relisuggest an amazing continuity to our | there: it is on the periphery of my congious enlightenment, career moves, a lives and a basis for our actions—withsciousness but at the center of my trip to Africa, a colorful tray on my out providing or taking away the need soul. Wow. shelf, and a grown man writing an artifor moral responsibility. Your turn. cle about itall, In following the lines of connecMatthew Heimburger is a professor of This is not an exact science—it tion through our past we can learn of American civilization at Brigham Young may not even be science at all. The the origins of both good and bad endUniversity. He lives here in the Heber Valley exercise is fraught with potential results. Now, in the hands of the dim, with his wife and son. breakdown for, we are bouncing from | this may only lead to excuses and a | BY LEE REICH |