It’s spring ! Ready ? Set… Grow !
It was the first day of spring and the drizzly rain couldn’t deter me from going to the garden.
A sense of enthusiastic urgency got me spading at the first plot, as if the sap rising in the trees had got my muscle juices flowing as well. Thankfully the rain stopped.
As I turned the earth over, making it look grainy, I could smell the fresh potential of spring.
I was preparing this plot of ground to host vegetables, getting any bindweed out of the way.
I expelled two harmful cockchafers.
It’s amazing how many parallels one can find between nature and scenes of life.
I am in a season of preparing to do something new. Not quite sure what I’m going to sow yet but getting excited imagining possibilities and preparing myself as best I can.
I pledge to give myself the best chances to succeed in this phase :
- wake up early to prepare the ground
- determine to go even if the weather is bad
- get the weeds out of the way, lest they whirl around and choke my plants
- expell the insects that threaten my crops.
The best time for me to do anything is early in the morning. It also gives me satisfaction for the rest of the day.
Circumstances change and may discourage me from going on. I like what I heard in a podcast recently — talk back to your emotions with other emotions. Okay, you don’t feel like going with the weather as it is… but imagine the feeling of satisfaction that you’ll have, knowing you not only progressed but also braved the weather.
I imagine bindweeds to be unresolved issues from my past. In a healthy garden, the weeds are under control. They are not allowed to entangle the rest. With evey weed I unearth, it’s as though my own self is getting reset for a fresh start — I’m looking ahead and preventing harm from coming to my future plan(t)s.
The cockchafers would be internal thoughts gnawing at me. Negative narratives that sabotage my endeavour. Once identified, I can expell them (and squish them — not very pleasant but necessary).
It’s wonderful when you can savour your own crops. There is something gratifying about being autonomous, going through the whole growing process and finally tasting and enjoying the produce. Just as you can feed on homegrown vegetables, achieving something in life also gives this feeling of satisfaction that you can feed on for a while, before starting over with something else.
What will you sow this year ?
