Plant a Seed

Gardening is my way to meditate. I love the physical work, and while I'm doing it I often find myself musing about the metaphors and connections gardening has to the rest of life. For example - it's just about time to start some seeds indoors in preparation for spring planting. Watching indoor-sown seeds gives you the chance to closely watch the process of germination and first growth. This always makes me think about how ideas are often planted as seeds and some germinate into something wonderful while others never see the light of day. Often when you're trying to teach someone something or convince someone of something, you're best to plant the seeds, provide the water and light needed and perhaps throw in some bullshit for fertilizer. You may wonder later why the idea never took root. And I sometimes wonder about that with the spring seeds I plant. Give them all the same soil, water, light and fertilizer and yet there's never 100 percent germination. Some things we don't control. What a lesson.