Sure, skates don’t roll very well on grass. But getting your feet underneath you on a soft surface is a great strategy for starting out.
How have you built a structure of safety that has allowed you to try something new?
Category: Meditations
An Instrument of Grace
“Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.”
—May Sarton
What works as an instrument of grace for you?
Where You’ve Landed
Somehow you got to where you are. Just how it happened might not be entirely clear. And now you need to figure out whether this might be a place to settle in after all, or whether you need to find a way to gather your feet underneath you and jump.
How do you feel about where you have landed?
A Single Blooming Tree
The rest of the trees may be wearing winter drab, but one tree has decked herself in an extravagance of lace. Neither the barren trees nor the blooming one are wrong. Sometimes, even in the middle of the long slog of a hard time there is an explosion of joy.
When have you been surprised by joy or beauty?
Growing Salad
What a lovely thing it is to rove through an extensive garden, choosing what will go in your salad, knowing that there is enough to share with friends. What you have to choose from, what you have to share, is a product of what you choose to grow.
What will you cultivate today?