If you find yourself hurrying in the garden, stop. Haste in the garden makes your time spent tending it into work. Tending your garden, nurturing your plants, cutting the lawn to fill the compost pile - do these at a pace that matches nature's time. Include time to sit on the bench in the shade, watching the birds chase each other or splashing in the birdbath, listening to the wind in the leaves and the bees in the flowers.
Haste in the garden means you're chasing a deadline, meeting a quota. It is no different from notification chimes from your toxic boss after hours.
The weeds will be there tomorrow. Haste changes nurturing the life in the garden - that in turn nurtures you - into an impossible list that will never be completed. Stop. Pause. Sit under the tree. Breathe. Enjoy the birds. When you weed, contemplate the beautiful new things that that bed will host. Haste robs you of time to be refreshed.
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