...pulling the weeds

Yogis,

I don’t know about where you live, but the summer here in DC has been exceptionally  damp.  For weeks on end we had at least some rain every day.  My garden hasn’t needed a solid visit from the hose since June. 

And with rain inevitably comes a rapid growth of plants…..but also of weeds!  It’s like we live in a rain forest.  Weeds that within days begin to look like small trees.  Grasses along the side of the road taller than me and in full bloom.  The cracks in my walkway sprouting so thick that it is hard to see the flagstone!

Having been away for two weekends, this weekend was left free for me to try to wrestle the property back into some semblance of control.  But on Friday evening as I stood out on the deck and looked out it was overwhelming.  The project appeared to loom so large that I had no idea where to start.  Saturday morning I found myself delaying the inevitable……..doing a little reading, having another cup of tea and checking email one more time. 

Finally I got the nerve to walk outside to survey.   I immediately noticed my small path next to the Vinca was overgrown so I leaned over and pulled out the spreading Shiso plants.  Which led me to the raspberry bush which had sent its sprawling vine like branches across my Comfrey plant.  As I cut them back I could see that the Comfrey had some dead growth in its center which I cleared out………….and on it went.  Little by little.  From one spot to the next.

Just like life.

Often we have a vision of something we want – to move, a different job, learning a new skill, going back to school – only to become paralyzed by what appears when looking at it “from the deck” as a massive undertaking.  Too many steps.  We get wrapped up in the “hows” of getting from here to there.

This weekend reminded me to just do SOMETHING.  Anything.  Drop the plan. Take just that very first baby step, keeping that end vision in your mind’s eye, but letting the Universe guide you from the path, to the bush, to the plant.  No need to know what is next.  That is the Universe’s job.  Just do SOMETHING……and the rest will follow along. 

What keeps stirring within you, but hasn’t moved forward?  What have you always wanted to do but feel too overwhelmed to make it happen?  You know it is in there.  Tomorrow – do SOMETHING!

I now can walk through my garden paths unobstructed.  I can actually see all of my beautiful flowers in bloom and I found 5 new cucumbers growing on the vine. 

I kind of like not knowing what comes next,

SARAH