23 July 2010
Gardening and change
My garden has been my metaphor of change in the last two years. I remember at our New Year’s gathering in 2009, we’d just moved back into our house and I sensed that my garden would be a tangible reflection of my spiritual journey for the year ahead. We found some champagne glasses in a box and toasted the New Year, little realizing how accurate this would be.
My beach holiday read was a book on permaculture, much to the humour of my family. It seemed to help as we reaped buckets of spinach, tossed out tomatoes suffering from some mineral disease, enjoyed fresh salads every night and eventually impatiently dug up some long-suffering potatoes. My daughter and I even tried to farm earthworms that we found after heavy rains.
The day I reluctantly moved out of the house, there were two sunflowers, a bed full of spinach and lettuce, two giant pumpkins and sight of beans. A season of reaping beckoned?
As you know from my last blog, we’ve moved again and today I planted onions, lettuce, rocket, coriander and thyme in our new home. I planted them in pots, I wonder how significant that is?
So I have soil under my nails and my back aches from dragging the bags of compost around and I think about change, again. I love the natural rhythms that a garden provides – watering, feeding, weeding, sewing and harvesting if you’re lucky. I embrace this season of winter that requires that I feed the soil and be patient, although my impatience has meant that I’m already planting.
I also realize how in the same two years, MyCube has been transformed from a gathering in our lounge, to an on-line business: you can sign up anywhere in the world using the payment gateway, download the 40 on-line videos to complete the course and send us any questions, which we’ll turn into a video and put it on the website. This process has taken much watering, feeding, weeding, sewing and hopefully now harvesting.
So if you’ve done one of our workshops, please email us and we’ll send you an online access code and you can view the videos yourself (Jeremy@mycube4change.co.za).
Our web designers (www.theantsnest.com) have used the same format for the videos as YouTube, so depending on your broadband, downloading should be quite quick.
For the gardeners among you, patience while your soil prepares for the next change.
