The Gardener

The old gardener works all day in harmony with natures rhythms and the wisdom of the ancient Latvians His happiness and fulfillment is a garden that no longer belongs to him but he feels like it does due to his large contribution to it He speaks to the garden and it responds giving him shelter and a rich harvest Autumn arrives and there is much work more than the gardener can handle The young homeowners desiring to make the gardeners life easier hire a new gardener The old gardeners love of the garden and his unwillingness to share it with anyone else leads him to make an inevitable decision to stay in the garden of his family forever This is a poetically symbolic story about disappearing time the land and modern reality