And it's little things - my sister and Cashmere have done the hard and heavy stuff. Cleaning out the little canal (6 inches wide, 10 feet long, and 1 inch deep at the most) that waters the plants on the east side of the shop took me all day and I'm not even counting the nap. I sat there for a while today to reconnect a little more and experienced an unexpected sense of the cosmic. Usually (or maybe only lately) the sense evoked has been sedentary, or almost agricultural - like a chore rather than a retreat. I'm just glad that I can still move between the two states.