If you have been reading this blog or getting "health update" emails from me, you know that I initially asked everyone to visualize me well and in the garden. I learned the power of visualization during my friend Emily's journey through cancer, and I quickly took up what wisdom I gleaned from her and applied it to my own experience. I knew immediately that I not only wanted to ask people to pray, meditate, and send healing energy, but I also wanted to ask for a focused vision of myself enjoying the vibrancy of life found in a growing garden.Garden chicken compliments of Beth B.
Having asked for a large group of people to imagine me in the garden has certainly enhanced and informed the depth of meaning I have found in our garden this spring. We have worked in the garden just about every day. For a while I was heading to the garden first thing every morning as a type of zen practice. Stringing the pea trellis and turning the soil in our beds, became important healing practices for me. And, another lovely result of the request for visualization was that friends and family sent us seeds and offered to help with the garden in many ways. The healing effects of the garden run deep, including the literal nourishment of our bodies. If all goes well the garden will provide us with the majority of our vegetable needs for the year.
Our garden is growing like mad, providing us daily food, and soon to hit that stage of wild growth characterized by mid-summer. The garden and my yoga mat are the two places I feel most certain that I am held up by love, support, and the abundant energy of the universe.
This garden is a collective effort (although the top-gardener award certainly goes to Rhonda).
Here is a quick, early-summer tour:
The salad bed (alternating rows of speckled romaine and arugula). We have been eating a salad a day as well as giving lots away. My mom planted some of the lettuce seeds when she was with us in March
The pea trellis. Hollis helped to make these frames and plant the seeds when she was in town in April. They started flowering yesterday!
The broccoli rabe seeds were sent by Jessica!
The long view which includes (in small hills at the bottom left) the zucchini seeds sent by my cousin Emily.
