Garden Alchemy
Alchemy means that everything can become something greater, indeed it must
Life lessons learned from my garden
There are few things more satisfying than seeing a seed you plant grow into something wonderful. And they are all wonderful. This can be interpreted literally or figuratively, as you like.
Every year brings a new beginning. Take what you learned from last time and go forward and do better than last time. The winter is long, and it may seem like nothing could endure the darkness, but behold, everything lives again. This is the inception of primordial religion.
The spirit of life of nature has a rhythm, lives, and breathes in and around us. We can nudge it along according to our will, but it’s going to do what it’s meant to do. There is a metaphor for life in there. Our input is and isn’t that important: it’s a paradox.
Nature has everything figured out. We can only very gently modify things to achieve what we want from them without making a complete mess out of it. We are part of nature, we are nature, but we have convinced (or deluded) ourselves into believing that we are somehow separate from it; so as to falsely believe that we have mastery over it.
