Passionate gardening (living)!

Living passionately means living in the present....what's blooming today! It is the wild soul that doesn't hang on to stuff, people, circumstances and events that has the freedom to feel the joy of everyday. We are not trained to be free......we are trained to be careful...to be fearful and color inside the lines! Ann Hillman in her book Dancing Animal Woman describes her heart's journey to her soul.

"The spiritual journey is a creative journey. It's about birth. It calls us past the boundaries of convention. It tests our willingness to see life in a new way and our courage to express it: for new ways of viewing life in the face of what is commonly accepted. We become new, and in this ongoing birthing, we bring new forms to life as well. Life itself has become a creative act, full of vitality and richness and passion. It is there in the unity of passion and utter stillness that the spirit gazes out of our soft wild eyes. Thus embodied we look around and discover that we are no longer lonely. We belong. Like running a finger along the edge of a single Mobius strip, we see that inside has become outside and outside has turned inward. We have found the tender connection between our own lives and all that is. For the spiritual journey ultimately leads to something larger that self – to the eternal, to all of life, and more tangible, to the earth. …through moist sand and warm air currents, through granite and birds of prey, deer and iris, butterflies and tarantulas."

Perhaps this is why gardening appeals to me with such a gripping passion....the miracle of new growth from a tiny seed, the tendrils of tiny roots digging into the fertile soil and the shoots of promise reaching toward the light, is an artists delight....using plants and flowers for paints and using the earth and sky for a canvas.