Garden Weeds

Weeds

The basil is so fat, succulent and sweet smelling. My heart lifts every time the breeze carries the aromas to me. The lavender is also healthy this year. It does have an aggressive nature and seems to want to spread to the beds of the less forceful rosemary. One thing I am finding very helpful is periodic cuttings. Now with the herbs it’s easy because I could use it in my meal that evening. When they start to get really wild clipping back and pruning seems to do the trick.

Every couple of days there are weeds in my garden, new shoots that threaten my basil and thyme.  You see the basil and thyme seem to me the most gentle and the sage let me not forget the sweet tricolored sage! I have to use patience and consistency to pull out the weeds every day or so. Because if I don’t they become very rooted and difficult to dig up. What amazes me is the relentlessness of the weeds that they continue to return. I wonder if they are blown in by the wind or dropped in by birds trying to make a nest. Without fail weeds are a given. Is it this way with everyone’s garden or only mine, I think I am not unique and gardening consists of weeding ~ basically that is what the job is. There is a metaphor here.

The mind and the heart are like my garden and require such tenacity, dedication, and vigilance. I have turned off the TV as I mentioned earlier because it adds to the weeds in my head.  There is an A game being required here. I have got to put some big things in motion. This is going to takes showing up fully with my mind wide open and my weeds of self doubt and distractions cut back weeded up and soil turned over. My commitment to this path has been germinating for sometime & now the time has come to see the fruit!  Some things happen dramatically and tragically while others happen in a gradual beautiful way. What ever way Dear God, give me the poise and equanimity to thrive. Amen