After a lovely sunny day yesterday we have grey overcast today, it seems to be pattern of one sunny day and one grey day in weekend. After my pond marathon yesterday I am planning a quiet day of low physical exertion. I have a goddess calling to have her finishing touches done and a story to read and if the urge strikes me the front stone gardens could do with a weeding or maybe a backwards and forwards with my little push mower.
I broke my fast with Hon gyokuro a lovely smooth green tea from TLeafT. Their description is “A rich and buttery flavour with a velvety finish makes this exquisite tea hard to resist. Produced in Yame-shi Fukuoka prefecture in Japan, hon gyokuro is renowned to be the highest grade of green tea in Japan. “ If you are thinking of trying Green Tea this tea is well worth your effort. I chose my red ribbed cast iron tea pot and cup to serve one of my favourite teas. The teapot gives me pleasure in it colour, the lovely round shape and rough/smooth texture against the lip.
As I write this Aurora is sleeping against my arm purring away and Serida is in my chair. She has stolen my chair and I can only sit in it if I have her on my lap. Khepra is outside surveying the garden. It is breeding season for the Pukekos and two have returned to the nest over the other side of the stream. They were screeching and squawking very loudly yesterday. At least I only have two thinking they own my garden instead of eleven as were a couple of years ago. I like the Pukekos but they do frustrate me with their destructiveness. I found in cleaning the pond that the Lotus no longer existed, last year when they ate the young leaves they must have eaten the corm also. So I have ordered two new Lotus and they will be arriving next week.
This is the beginning of three weeks annual leave. This is a time for me to get into the garden and get it set up for summer. My geraniums are coming into bloom and from the pieces of plants I collected walking to and from work I have a mauve and a yellow Osteospermum that have come into flower. At the moment in the garden I have a large quantity of borage available for the bees and the Scabiosa is looking lovely, the yellow Rhododendron and the red Vireya are also coming into bloom. It is a happy time in the garden when the flowering start and I always look forward the Viburnum Mariesii bursting into flower it is the crown jewel in my spring garden. I have taken a piece and moved it up to the front garden to fill in a corner, so I can get extra pleasure from it.
Today my thoughts are drifting towards being rather than doing. We have adopted a cult of always having to be active and achieving when the most important thing is being, living fully within your skin. Engaging in the eternal curiosity of your mind; reflecting and re-engaging with the world that only you know living in the now and being.
“They both listened silently to the water, which to them was not just water, but the voice of life, the voice of Being, the voice of perpetual Becoming.” ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
And
“The Universe contains three things that cannot be destroyed; Being, Awareness and LOVE” ― Deepak Chopra
Finally a poem I wrote in October 2015
Become
In becoming who you are
Do not hide the fire in your soul
Under a mantle of smallness
You have been forever, eternal
You are present in the now, being
You will be in the far distant future, infinite
Your grace flows endlessly through you
You are a powerful natural force.
Grow strong in growing into yourself.
Do not hide the fire in your soul
Become who you are.
Blessings to all in this upcoming week in your week may you express Being, Awareness and LOVE.
