My lilacs are in bloom already! It feels like
Spring on Overdrive,
everything is hurrying to leaf out, blossom, and grow! So I am soaking up the scents and sights enjoying these days to the fullest.
I planted most of my container garden yesterday and today. I’m trying an experiment. Because of the problems with deer eating sugar snap peas and bean plants when I have my containers on a table on the side of our driveway, I’ve moved a couple of containers to our deck and planted sugar snap peas and green beans in them.
Because the deer cannot get to them on the deck I’m hoping that I might actually get a crop of them this year. Right now I have the containers covered with mesh netting to keep the squirrels from digging up the seeds. It’s a constant gardening game trying to outwit the wild creatures in our neighborhood.
I also planted lettuce, basil, parsley and oregano. Luckily the deer don’t usually bother any of these herbs and vegetables so I’m leaving them on the table beside our driveway.
I think this is the latest that I’ve ever planted lettuce. Usually I plant it in mid-April, but not this year. Even early May was still too cold for planting.
It feels like spring is condensed into fewer days this year. With warm weather arriving I’m hopeful for a bit more spring before summer sets in but with climate change it is difficult to predict how the weather will be. The constant changes and reminders of what we have done to our world sometimes overwhelm me with sorrow.
We are capable of suffering with our world, and that is the true meaning of compassion. It enables us to recognize our profound interconnectedness with all beings. Don’t ever apologize for crying for the trees burning in the Amazon or over the waters polluted from mines in the Rockies. Don’t apologize for the sorrow, grief, and rage you feel. It is a measure of your humanity and your maturity. It is a measure of your open heart, and as your heart breaks open there will be room for the world to heal. That is what is happening as we see people honestly confronting the sorrows of our time.
Still I choose to find beauty, wonder, and awe in our natural world and to celebrate what is right with the world while I do what I can to help mitigate climate change.
The biggest gift you can give is to be absolutely present, and when you’re worrying about whether you’re hopeful, or hopeless, or pessimistic, or optimistic, who cares? The main thing is that you’re showing up, that you’re here and that you’re finding ever more capacity to love this world because it will not be healed without that. That was what is going to unleash our intelligence and our ingenuity and our solidarity for the healing of our world.
May you walk in beauty.
Green, green, it’s green they say…
Found these beautiful leaves on the park path in our neighborhood
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