International Women’s Day: I’m Moving My Body Too!

By Evang. Dupe Singerr

I have chosen to do my exercises in the gardening of my own garden. They say one should not live a sedentary life, so, up I go.

I deliberately chose not to use a hose, although I don’t have an active hose for now. I fetch water from the taps, add an organic mixture that I made from plants and wet my garden generously. The “generous” part takes a longer time for me, but they say at my age, I should keep moving, so, I move.

The organic mixture has become an organic insecticide. You won’t know how mosquitoes, lizards, centipedes, millipeeds and bush rats have terrorized my compound in the past. It cost my late husband a fortune to cut down the palm tree that grew by itself and became massive. It gave bush rats a natural club house parties at night and day; not with the beautiful palm kernel, hmmm, whatever.

Now, all the pests are disappearing. My plants are healthy. The mosquitoes are almost extinct. I can now enjoy the natural health giving breeze by the new liberty of opening my doors for cross ventilation. Even the termites have run, and so have the bush rats and even the lizards.

You would have thought I was brooding a colony of lizards. They picked a race.

My plants are growing well and I enjoy growing my organic vegetables (green and attractive), myself.

My sweet potatoes are doing well too.

In case you think that I am fighting ecology, no, I don’t think so. The butterflies are flying and the small snails that were pests are actually growing bigger.

I feel peace all around me.

I even think that the soil is grateful. The soil of my compound had issues. Our tangerine trees carry heavy and attractive but not sweet fruits. So is our guava tree. But something is shifting; organically, not chemically.

For me, this is the highlight of my story together with the fact that I am moving my body too.

Is someone happy for me?

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