Good morning. I hope I haven't posted this picture yet. It's the one that jumped out at me this morning. It's a rosin weed (Silphium integrifolium).
I planted it along the driveway a few years ago. It bloomed for the first time this year.
I planted a couple sickly looking ones next to our mature ironweed a few weeks ago. They were in 2 inch pots. Root bound. Slowly dying. Annie said, "Go ahead plant them. No one is going to buy them."
Our front meadow is full of sickly looking plant stories. Sometimes I look at it and say what a mess. But then I remind myself, it's my mess. When I'm in the meadow I am learning. And I become quiet inside. I become unsettled when I start worrying about what people are going to think of it, and of course me. Because I identify with it.
Self concern leads to separation, as the Buddhists say.
Quick story if you have made it this far. I used to have a life coach. She was a woman in her late 60's or early 70's. She immigrated here with her parents from Nazi Germany as a little girl.
We found each other on Facebook. It was through the Ishmael Community (that's how Annie and I also got together in a roundabout way). It always comes back to that damn book. LOL.
Anyway our coaching sessions would last an hour. I would drive down to Spring Lake boat landing, call her (she lived in Texas), and she would coach me. It was a master/student relationship. It lasted for maybe 5 years. It ended in 2020 along with a lot of other things in my life.
Whenever I would get stuck in our sessions, which was a lot, she would say "would it be okay if life was easier," or something like that.
And then we would uncover how I was getting in my own way. I remember it as worthy work. The suffering was worth it. And life would slowly become easier.
Sort of like learning about native plants in the front meadow. I believe life was easier when we understood plants. When we lived more primitively so to speak.
And that's the vision I try to live into. One where life is a sacred process that I am a part of. The rest will take care of itself, as my coach used to say.
I am off today through Tuesday. I am happy about that. :-) I hope you have a great Sunday.
#gm #coffeechain
I planted it along the driveway a few years ago. It bloomed for the first time this year.
I planted a couple sickly looking ones next to our mature ironweed a few weeks ago. They were in 2 inch pots. Root bound. Slowly dying. Annie said, "Go ahead plant them. No one is going to buy them."
Our front meadow is full of sickly looking plant stories. Sometimes I look at it and say what a mess. But then I remind myself, it's my mess. When I'm in the meadow I am learning. And I become quiet inside. I become unsettled when I start worrying about what people are going to think of it, and of course me. Because I identify with it.
Self concern leads to separation, as the Buddhists say.
Quick story if you have made it this far. I used to have a life coach. She was a woman in her late 60's or early 70's. She immigrated here with her parents from Nazi Germany as a little girl.
We found each other on Facebook. It was through the Ishmael Community (that's how Annie and I also got together in a roundabout way). It always comes back to that damn book. LOL.
Anyway our coaching sessions would last an hour. I would drive down to Spring Lake boat landing, call her (she lived in Texas), and she would coach me. It was a master/student relationship. It lasted for maybe 5 years. It ended in 2020 along with a lot of other things in my life.
Whenever I would get stuck in our sessions, which was a lot, she would say "would it be okay if life was easier," or something like that.
And then we would uncover how I was getting in my own way. I remember it as worthy work. The suffering was worth it. And life would slowly become easier.
Sort of like learning about native plants in the front meadow. I believe life was easier when we understood plants. When we lived more primitively so to speak.
And that's the vision I try to live into. One where life is a sacred process that I am a part of. The rest will take care of itself, as my coach used to say.
I am off today through Tuesday. I am happy about that. :-) I hope you have a great Sunday.
#gm #coffeechain