The Importance of Alive

I dug is good though salvaging healthy organs from these three sentences a workable first line might be kneeling in wet leaves at the foot of my parents garden I dug. The earth below the surface was freezing and alive by freezing you don't actually mean freezing do you or do you mean very cold? What does the adjective alive add at least with freezing you're implying a sensation the soil is stinging cold against their fingers. Alive is just a wanky poetic value judgment and look I throw these meaningless tags into my sentences all the time it sounds poetic and vaguely poignant but it's bullshit masquerading as high art. Whenever I redraft I'm on the hunt for each instance with a har