The 501

COMMENTARY
  • The 501
    The 501

    HANABA MUNN WELCH

    Managing (human) nature

    There’s joy in mowing.

    Remember the Garden of Eden? God created humans to be gardeners. Then things fell apart.

    Granted, mowing isn’t gardening — not exactly. But it’s managing nature. Adam and Even would have mowed and smiled if they’d had a lawn mower. Right?

    But when mowers don’t work right, they are endemic to the curse we endure in our post-Eden fallen sta…