Most of the time I feel like its hard to fit anywhere. And it doesn't matter what it is really, a teeny tiny cafe chair, most clothes, West L.A., an aisle at Trader Joe's, a job description on Craigslist...just about anywhere. Then there are those few places where I actually can be myself and shine without scratch or worry, like my succulent garden. Which is the perfect place to start this blog-of-thyself thing. This afternoon while waiting for laundry, I began to sweep debris out of my zen rock garden. Gliding through the various surrounding succulents I noticed some mint that I'd thrown loosely into a jar of water. My crazy landlord lady/really just a manager had told me that it should start growing roots and eventually you can plant it! Low and behold...beautiful, glistening white ROOTS!!
Sometimes I can't believe how easy it is to grow something. Well..I'm sure not everything is this easy but I'm immensely grateful that my path has been laced with "easy" things to grow. Perhaps its silly? I mean I didn't really do anything. The mint did it, and the sun did it. But me not so much. Yet still I felt incredibly powerful and accomplished. I could march back into the house like a stalky, stout, ten year old boy who just hit a bulls eye of soup cans with a homemade slingshot. But not before I checked my other mint project of course! When I first got the mint, I had decided to throw some left over vines into an unused pot for fun. Just to see if they'd actually grow. But of course they did....
And so my garden will continue to rest amongst the neighborhood noise and guarded by a grumpy $12 dollar gnome. Needless to say I am very pleased, hopeful and can't wait until tomorrow. And I guess that's the whole point to anything...hope. And that's where I'm gonna start this first post, these first words, and another tomorrow...at the point of hope. I just hope it keeps getting better.
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