Changes

It just hit me that things are about to change again but it is all going to be for the better. Wow, 10 years really have gone by…

Yesterday I realized that the tree in my backyard is actually a Mulberry tree, I hadn’t ever picked them before but now I love them! The ground is covered in them and wild strawberries.

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I’ve been seeing birds carrying berries around but now I know that these are another useful plant I have in my backyard! I wonder who planted everything here, the tree is fairly young but this house was built in 1952.

This week I am submitting my paper. Finishing these next steps, then there will probably be a whole new staircase in front of me, forever starting or finishing things. I really should be editing my paper – I’ll get to it.. I have to write about / think / do something else for a little bit .. like going outside and checking on Mama Dove sitting in her nest, taking macro photography of the Red birds eating mulberries, or picking honeysuckle and roses again for making infused fragrance oils, while there are still blooms to pick.. It’s been raining on and off the past few days. Sun is out but there are dark clouds in the distance. I have too much I need to do on the computer… I sit indoors and watch through the window. The yard is such a blessing when I need to go outside to recharge. Everything we use seems to require some sort of recharge… my power comes from flowers, the open sky and greenness of nature.

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I can’t believe we’re already nearly half ways through the year 2021.

Being in the garden, seeing things change and how fast everything is growing has made me realize that every Spring, the way things change and grow now sets the tone for the summer, the cycle continues through the seasons.

This Spring I want intentional growth, to go into the summer with a stronger faith and deeper understanding of my purpose – a fruitful new season of myself.

I always have so much on my mind… flowers are the only thing that can completely bring me into the present moment. Flowers grow wherever they can. I still wonder where I belong at times.. if not here in this garden, then where? If I go anywhere, I would miss the plants – I’d try to take cuttings and roots for transplanting. All I need is right here, for now things are working fine.

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I hear a deep rumbling in the distance and the blue sky is gone now. I can smell rain and the honeysuckle in the breeze coming through the window. I love Memphis weather, even the hot humid summers. It feels lush all around me, the trees are full of birds and squirrels, some raccoons and opossums. I’m happy here and thankful every day for all that has changed my life, all the changes yet to come.

What stays the same? Subtle changes are always happening.. It takes a lot to make a change sometimes, sometimes we desperately need a change and can’t seem to get it, other times changes just happen as a reaction and it’s automatic.

Changing land, ecosystem changes in turn. Changing our diet, our body changes in turn. It’s like this…

Accepting change, pushing through change, creating change…

Small changes we make in ourselves over time, big changes we cannot avoid…