Rain Garden June 1, 2012 4:52pm
When I was first learning how to play golf I was introduced to a ‘mulligan’, which is what you call your first drive, if it is really bad. Calling it a ‘mulligan; you get to redo the drive.
Listening to the Brewer’s baseball game I heard the announcer wishing the Brewers could call a ‘redo’ after a series of unfortunate plays for the team.
In life as in professional baseballs there are no ‘redo’s’ unless everyone is willing to forget and forgive an action and allow the person to redo it without prejudice. That is hard to do since mistakes are used against people and prejudice is hard to overcome.
This brings me to another reason why I love gardening. In Gardening there are redo’s. I messed up my lettuce growing for a number of years but this year got it right and have lots of good healthy lettuce. There are other garden mistakes I have learned from and there is more to go. The garden, soil, rain, sun has no memories or regrets and is always new.
Gardens show us the value of living in the present, the moment, and the now. In the present moment there are no past mistakes to think about and there is no future to worry about. The Garden is an excellent metaphor for living life. In the garden there are seasons of death and new life; there is learning from mistakes; a garden can produce beauty and/or a harvest of food. What garden has in common with a wise person that lives life to the fullest, has no regrets and experiences the depths of life is that the garden and the wise person live in the present.
In the present there are no needs for redo’s. No Redo is necessary where there is no past and future.
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