Welcome to Spring!

The seasons change, months flow after each other, it’s part of life.

The first day of spring here was a cool, overcast, drizzly kind of day. Seven days later our temps are in the mid to high twenties, perfect weather for gardening.

So much can change in a week. Originally my plans for September included a lot of gardening time, writing more books, and getting some more social media happening.

As it turns out, I’ll be working a lot more, at my paid job, than I’d planned. I kinda don’t mind, money helps pay the bills. But it does change my focus. Ten-hour days are exhausting, mentally and physically and unless I learn to garden in the dark, it limits what I can achieve.

Then I changed the way I looked at my dilemma. (My favourite saying – when we change the way we look at things, the thing we look at will change.) I don’t have to write. I don’t have to grow plants. I want to. There’s no obligation, I can work at my own pace. The full moon is helping my clarity. I can let go of what I don’t want, release the ‘should’ and ‘have to’. Conversely, the full moon always reminds me of regrets – those people I let down. Then I remember to release those regrets, and focus on doing better, no focus on being me. My view of the world was tunnel vision, for a long time, and it still can be.

Am I set in my ways? Yes.

Am I stubborn, determined when I want to be? Yes

Am I learning from my 57 years of life? Some days I like to think so.

My reflections, my musings, my thoughts – may be cyclical, and a little repetitive sometimes, but I take heart from the seasons, and the moon phases. If nature repeats itself, growing a little, changing a little, but basically the same, dependable, then it’s okay for humans to learn and grow slowly, over our lifetime.

Do you agree?