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  • "Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are." Alfred Austin
  • "My whole life has been spent waiting for an epiphany, a manifestation of God's presence, the kind of transcendent magical experience that lets you see your place in the big picture. And that is what I had with my first compost heap." Bette Midler

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Fallow Ground

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I slipped into the silence there for a little while, sorry about that. Not that things haven't been happening in the garden. Much has been planted and I perch impatiently on my hands and knees willing growth, all the while knowing the futility of such thoughts. There is a correctness in this fallow period when mysteries are happening below the earth, a certain rightness to the dormancy that teaches patience and fortitude. So writes a gardener who routinely pulls vegetables from the ground to check whether they are growing!

If this garden can teach me anything, I hope it might be a certain equanimity to let things be and grow in their own sweet time.

Happy gardening! x

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Posted at 05:34 PM in Winter |

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I like winter in the garden, too.
It means it's time for a rest.
(must admit I do pull out cuttings to see if roots have grown)

Posted by: freefalling | 07/22/2009 at 10:31 PM

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