bountiful harvest?
This is the actual tomato harvest from my garden this year (ok there were a few more cherry tomatoes before but not many). Funny, my entire harvest has looked like it came from a Bonsai garden... or a Barbie garden. Whatever - everything was really miniature and sparse. Granted, I did not even plan on having a garden this year, thinking I would be away during the prime season... so the garden I ended up with was spontaneously cobbled together in un-prepped soil from starter plants given me by friends. The results... well, at least some stuff actually grew and produced. That's the "glass half full" attitude I'm so desperately trying to adopt again.
The Stones' lyric comes to mind, "you can't always get what you want..."
Yes, this has been an interesting year. The harvest has been, well, strange. In other words, that which I thought I wanted earlier in the year is not, indeed, what I got.
"...but if you try sometimes... you just might find...you get what you need."
As much as the "inner baby" recoils from this wisdom, it is true - I did get what I need. I finally "get" that I'm where I am supposed to be, geographically and otherwise. I also "get" that the whole virtual Aussie adventure was just that - an adventure. And I do loves me some adventure. The "need" part is simple - I needed not only an adventure, but a wakeup call about what's really important in life... my people... my soul group... my family, both biological and non. The wakeup call also rekindled my interest in bringing my little business back to pre-war levels (aka "the salad days").
So, the harvest might look a bit meager, but it's still a harvest. And next year, I will prep my soil properly and I will plant things on time and I will have a much bigger, more bountiful harvest. And life will be good. Actually, it already is.
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