how I love to be surprised by what I have forgotten to see…
“Plants are our travel agents,” he says with a smile. “They take us places. And everything has a story and companionship with the whole ecosystem: the soil, the rocks, the trees.” To walk through the garden with God is to discover the garden’s undercurrents, the smallest and most elusive details.
“When you slow down like this, the real garden is uncovered, ” Writes Wendy Johnson, who started the gardens at Green Gulch Farm Zen Center. “And so is the real gardener,” she adds. “You unfold together. This takes time and a willingness to sit still past the moment when you get bored, or the moment when you think of at least 30 worthy garden tasks that you need to accomplish immediately. Instead, give yourself all the time in the world and don’t move.”
Make Believe Boutique
A robin hopped across the edge of the yard today no different than any other day really making its way to a new worm a midday snack tucked in and amongst my pile of bricks awaiting reconstruction then alongside the new build bed looking forward to next spring planting he traveled underneath an overgrown lilac tree dipping down shade into my yard from the neighbors
It was any other moment that a robin bounces through the yard
Yet today I said hello god and watched him turn his head a bit in my direction I let the edges of my lips curl up with the giggle that rose at this quick unmeditated response coming to my tongue
it was any other day in which a robin bounds across the yard and yet
there you have it
god
a robin
and my upturned lips