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Waiting to Produce
by Debby Topliff on Jul 09, 09 • no comments • Share This
July 9th garden
Six weeks have gone by since the photo below. Radishes have all been eaten, carrots are filling in after them. Peas climbed up, flowered, and produced. Yum. Swiss chard, butternut squash, tomatoes in cages, beets, onions, peppers. The broccoli have tiny heads. One morning I found a hole under the lettuce, 4” round, 6” deep, carefully lined with long grass and two marigold flowers. I’m guessing a rabbit thought it found heaven.
Each living thing follows its unique, implanted directions, produces its own special contribution to the world. How do we learn to pay attention to what our cells are telling us? Why do I wish I was an early radish or a peapod when my fruit takes all summer to mature?
This past weekend I attended Rob Bell’s conference called Poets, Prophets, and Preachers. It was phenomenal. Preaching as the original guerrilla theater and a peek inside the heads of some of today’s most brilliant minds. Graciously they allowed me to sell my Painting Revelation DVD at the book table. I watched as the speakers’ books flew off the table while my DVDs languished. There was interest, and some wonderful encouraging comments from people who’d watched the video. One pastor bought it, watched it in his room that night, and came back the next morning to tell me how much he liked it. I was happy for the exposure and the affirmation. But when I got back home I started doing the numbers, calculating percentages, and feeling sorry for myself.
I may be a carrot who needs to spend a lot of time underground, going deep. Or more likely an asparagus plant. This spring I dug a trench for the bare roots. When the tiniest shoots came up, I added more soil. Now I have little feathery plants in the trench. Next year the stalk will be a bit bigger and I’ll cover it more. Maybe the third year the trench will be filled in and the asparagus ready to eat. I hope so.
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