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on tending a garden
learning to love the process
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You have explained this so well. Gardening teaches us so much about life and you have articulated that perfectly.
hi alex, so delighted to read/view this....and in learning to love the process, the tomatoes always do riper and mature. my garden is absolutely luxurious this year because of the monsoon rains we are finally experiencing in new mexico. but, having been an artist for the past 50 years, i learned, as you are, that the process is everything...and that, always, if you stay deeply enough in process, the "product" will come. but not thinking about the "product"...except to get started and then letting the process take over. always the process, the exploration. recently, with a single dot of red, i completed a 6' by 8' painting that i made 20 years ago...something had always bothered me about it...and that single red dot took its time arriving but then, when it did, the piece was finished...