03/17/2025
It is Spring! And getting my hands into the earth and connecting with nature is helping me so much. Today I went out to my yard to pick some violets to add to our salads and surprised myself finding chicory, henbit, dandelion and fennel, along with the violets I had gone out to get. Just the process of being on the ground, with my hands touching what is alive immediately grounded me and connected me to my own aliveness and the beauty in the world. I found myself spontaneously thanking the plants and the yard, and whomever had tended this yard before us and either allowed these “weeds” to stay or perhaps had purposed planted them in to the lawn. Some days lately I’ve wanted to run away, to another country, another place, another time. But today I am grateful for where I am and where we have landed and the plants and the people and the community we are finding and creating.
