Crocus in Rain Garden Today
The first flowers in the rain garden, crocuses are blooming. The rain garden, however, as a whole, is late blooming this year. (See below for picture of total rain garden.) I am still playing, catch up, and will be for some time, in the rain garden as the flowers, spring, summer and fall begin to bloom. Last year I was able to pick flowers from the garden for vase on kitchen table from March 1, 2012 through Oct. 31, 2012. (See Flower Vase Beauty.) This year I will feel lucky if I have flowers for the vase on May 1, 2013.
We can have impact on part of Nature, like weather, but, at the end, Nature has its way. Sometimes I wish it was this way with human beings, just to let things be. For example, being poor and marginalized is tough enough without having a whole bunch of hoops to jump through to get basic needs. Usually it is the person that is not in solidarity with the poor and marginalized that make the rules that make it harder for poor people to survive.
Today with all the talk about low taxes or cutting taxes not only is the Christian message of government serving the common good lost but the very sense of the wealthy sharing with the poor is nearly completely loss. “The Gandhi quote of the day “All taxation to the healthy must return tenfold to the taxpayer in the form of necessary services” sound silly in today’s world.
For nature to thrive all aspects of nature must work together. Individualism, like there is today in USA, plays no role and can be destructive. Yet individuals insist on making it harder and harder for the poor and marginalized to survive by creating more rules and obstacles for people in need or outcasts.
I have a particular example of this happening in my life now but I do not want to mention it. It makes me angry to think about it but by expressing it will not help. All I can do is to bring myself more in line with who I am and true to my own nature within. Working outside in the gardens in nature is healing and I must let nature has its way.
Rain Garden Today
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