We live in a busy age. Our phones, watches, TVs, computers send us chimes and notifications and popups and reminders. We doomscroll on our phones and while we're doing one thing, are told about another. And another, and another.
There is no screen time in the garden. Gardening stops all that, if you have the discipline to leave your devices behind. In the garden, it is possible to plant only one sprout at a time, squeezing the soil aside to make a small space for the roots in their ball of potting soil. It gives us time to smell the soil, feel the breeze, hear the wind in the trees and the conversations of the birds. To spot the tiny weed pushing through the mulch, to pull tomorrow. At this pace, calm returns.
A garden returns us to the speed at which we are meant to live, without distractions, one season at a time, slowly.
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