I am
thinking this morning of the simple spiritual things I often experienced.
I recently
mowed the lower meadow where the grasses had grown to twelve or more inches. I’d
cut it once already this spring, but its growth exceeded my human schedule what
with recent spring rains and warming sunlight. It’s just
another reminder that nature does not attune to me, but I must bow to it.
Mowing
is a task many of us do in the maintenance of our homes and homesteads. As my
machine cut the living grasses and weeds I noticed tiny clumps of Bluets and
Lilly Of The Valley flowers. These magnificent clusters of delicate blossoms
beautify the meadow with minute flashes of white bell flowers and four blue
petals with a yellow stamen on the Bluets. They are so tiny and so beautiful. I
had my blade set to four and a half inches so the flowers missed the cut.
I took
my time to thank the flowers, grasses and weeds for the grace they give the
greening meadow both in their long form and when I cut them short. Every once
in awhile I’d get a whiff of an onion aroma as my blade sliced a patch of wild
chives; there is nothing like it.
Later as
I trimmed some Wisteria vines and pulled some ambient seedlings from the
various house gardens, I again thought of man’s proximity and connection to
nature’s constant birth and how we attempt to manipulate the natural beauty of
spontaneous chaos into the patterned form of our symmetry and color.
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