the garden

Blog Post 29.

We seek the garden.

Whatever that means to each of us, whatever the garden is and however it manifests.

We’re all out searching for it, wanting it.

 

The hard part, however, is not seeking the garden.

The hard part is becoming the gardener.

It’s pulling the weeds and it’s planting the seeds.

 

Most of us don’t know what we want the garden to look like. This is okay.

Some of us think we know what the garden should look like, but are actually peaking over the neighbors’s hedges and letting their gardens confuse the ideas we have for our own. This will be okay, for now.

Many of us will be surprised by the garden we create. This, too, is okay.

 

I could be wrong, but I’m thinking that the best way to grow a garden is to pull a few weeds every day- before they get to big, of course. And to plant the seeds as you find flowers that move you, even if it takes a while to come across them.

Fruits and vegetables are good, practical. But not to neglect to add some strictly-ornamental plants. To keep the bench from getting too dusty and to make sure there is always at least a bit of water in the bird bath.

To be ready for a mix of annuals and perennials and remember that a little wispy grass here and there always feels inviting, even in the crisp of winter.

I’ll let you decide if this is a metaphor…