Looking for worms in the compost
in the DMZ

For a while now on this Diary of the Worm I have been talking about the health benefits of working with the soil. I even posted an article about the science of this benefit called Nature’s Bounty and Soil Salvation. Now I have non-scientific proof of the healing power of soil for the body.

On my travels today between my home gardens and the DMZ community garden I received a phone call from my friend Ella about her husband, Joseph, who had been on a ventilator in the Intensive Care Unit of a local hospital. She told me her husband had been removed from the ventilator and was strong enough to have the necessary operation to repair his one remaining lung. That was good news.

Yesterday my wife and I had been to the hospital to visit Joseph, and although he was still on the ventilator and could not talk, he was conscious. I had held his hand and remembering the reiki, healing energy transfer that my friend Lorenzo practiced, tried to send my energy to Joseph. Also in my memory was the picture of the two religious sisters holding his hands in the ER while praying over him.

When Ella called today she told me that when Joseph could speak he said that my wife and I had visited him yesterday and that when we held his hand he felt a healing power in his body. Was it the soil in my skin, reiki or prayer or a combination of all three? Who knows, or cares? I felt blessed that I was able to transfer some healing energy to my friend who was so ill.

There was plenty of chance today to store up some more healing power from the soil as I worked in my own garden and in the DMZ community garden. While Dawn and I were working on the community garden some neighborhood children joined us. As we moved compost from the compost pile to the growing rows we check for worms. The worms we could see we put in our Worm Box so they could eat, populate and produce ‘black gold’ or castings.

Thank you Nature, God, Reiki or all 3 for the healing of my friend.

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