Lessons from the garden: sustaining yourself in every way

Coming up to summer solstice, I am back in the garden, looking at what I shall be harvesting this year... There's still time to plant a few more seeds, and give the plants that are struggling some extra help...

I'm doing the same in my personal life... still weeding & planting, sowing and watering, harvesting and planning...

This week, it was pointed out to me that although circumstances may change, life is not lived in stops and starts, but in a long sequence of events... much like the continuous turning of the seasons...
I liked that...

Makes gardening in a sustainable way even more appealing too...

I guess if you want to sustain yourself well, you need to identify your requirements for vitality, physically, mentally, emotionally & spiritually.... and put in the work to cultivate, harvest, and process them as best you can...

Gardening as a healing tool

Gardening is an art, that is healing... contemplative... meditative... transformative...

You can grow some food and connect with the land upon which you live...

It grounds the mind, exercises the body, and feeds the soul with wonder ...

Babies arriving, and Dear Ones leaving over the past little while, are reminders of the fragility and transience of life...

Gardening provides a container, a context, in which gardeners can accept these things, whilst not needing to understand such mystery...