For many, the start of the year is not an easy transition. Switching from free time to being away at work each day can be difficult. Commuting, working, and commuting can feel like a straitjacket within which our personal goals and needs struggle.
Looking out at the garden in the period before Spring often feels similar. There are those projects we never got to the previous year, the plants that are still in pots, the compost bays still unturned. The year stretches out ahead of us - and yet there doesn't seem to be enough time.
Gardens can thrive tended and untended, as long as there is intention. The patch of unpruned growth can serve as a space for wildlife until the hedges are grown. All a garden needs is for the gardener to show up. And then begin. Rushing will not serve the garden, and it will not feed the soul. Show up and tend the soil, and the soil will tend the gardener.
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