equinox

Spring!  Yay!

Today I am imagining my life as a garden.  What do I want to grow this year?  What seeds are just beginning to sprout?  What beauties from last year survived the winter?  Do I want to try something new this year?  What can I do without?  What's essential?

This morning at therapy I was telling K about how rancid, putrid, aggravating yesterday was.  I told a friend in email that I couldn't have lunch with her today because I was going to dig holes out in the yard, burn down the house, and string expletives together in ever-creative ways.  Yesterday was from Satan.

But today is the first day of spring!  So K and I talked about the wonder of the world.  How does the Goddess do that, even when she's weary and there's nasty stuff going on in the world?  Isn't it amazing that spring comes yet again into our lives?  Things are sprouting.  Blossoms are unfolding.  Trees are getting those little buds where new branches will grow.  My gosh.  It's amazing.  There is hope!

So I have some ideas about my inner garden...  There *must* be more creative play, for example.  So today I planted a "seed" by making a pair of really cool earrings.  (I haven't done that in fifteen years!)  I want our physical garden to become healthy and fruitful so today I planted the rest of the apple trees.  It felt so good to do that on the first day of spring.  I also *must* stop angsting so much about cooking dinner so tonight's dinner is going to come from the freezer, or maybe I'll go get a pizza.  There are other ideas brewing in my mind, and I'm going to spend the next couple of weeks planting new seeds and tending new growth in my life. 

Even though I'm an old hag, I *too* can bloom again. 

Comments

[nyjlm]

awesome metaphor! Maybe this idea can be an anchor for you, so that when things start to drift away, you can remember, I am a garden.

Also- yay for not feeling so alone in imagining burning my house down.