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August 28, 2007

I never thought I'd find gardening so...fulfilling

I *really* didn't think I'd ever feel this way! I started off on this journey just seeing is as a way to provide food for our family and a way of working towards a sustainable lifestyle. I have a friend who just loves getting out into her garden at every opportunity and I always slightly wondered just what it was that did it for her - I just saw it as a boring chore.

Well, now I know! For me, I have found it such an easy way to be one with nature and it's so meditative (as in, I am able to just think nothing and "be") yet other times I love the free thinking time it gives me which I don't often get (or seem to somehow avoid through being on the internet during my spare time which is anything but relaxing really (in the busy mind sense anyhow). It's also a way of me getting some much needed exercise (and boy am I feeling the pain of muscles that haven't been used for a while). I'm just wanting to be out there as much as I can -fortunately Nathan enjoys it too, Danielle not so much at the moment, so we pop down to the garden to work while she's sleeping.

2 comments:

Sandra said...

Thought you'd caught the bug Nikki. Fantastic! Have you got the compost fascination bug yet?

Anonymous said...

Ha ha! I was out in the garden the other day thinking along the same lines. In particular the meditative aspects. I've been spending a lot of time in a zen state while picking up thousands of bean bag beans one by one ;>