Hardware Stores

This morning I woke thinking about how much I love hardware stores with their green coiled hoses, leather work gloves, rakes, racks of spring seed packets, pillows of fertilizer, shiny shovels, short spades, nuts, bolts, buckets, mops, mowers, mildew cleaners, mulch, bird feeders, and bird seed. There's a lot of faith in what they carry; they are churches of the Earth.