Waiting on Radishes by Kevin

Out of all the vegetables and fruits I could grow, I’ve heard that radishes are one of the easiest.  It’s even suggested that they are a great plant for children to grow because it only takes thirty days from seed to harvest.  Some of us need to see the fruits of our labor a little faster.  Here are my soon to be Radishes.

 I’m Kevin Singletary and I just started managing the Indy hostel about one week ago with my wife Hailey.  Wondering what that has to do with radishes?  We’ll see if I can tie it together.  Here we go. 

Transitions are supposed to be hard and they usually are.  We moved all the way from Ruston, LA, a college town of about 20,000. We loved it there.  We loved the sunsets.  We loved the smells.  We loved our favorite Mexican restaurants, El Jarrito and La Tienda.  But most of all we loved our friends.

And here we are one week into a new adventure, managing a hostel or as many of my American brothers and sisters accidently translate into a hospital, or my favorite, a brothel.  We have had so many good experiences here in such a short amount of time.  We thought we might be waiting for those experiences like tomatoes (3 months), raspberries (2 years), or even asparagus (3-4 years).   

But I’m learning new things.  I’m learning that you can make friends in one week.  You can make a small space into something great.  And you can enjoy what you do.  We’ve connected with so many travelers coming through the hostel and Indy locals during this small time.  Just like growing anything, all we did was water and throw seeds, someone else made it all happen. 

So now, I wait on radishes and wonder how many great experiences and friends I will have to talk about when they arrive in thirty days.