Sleepy and Searching for Seeds

Do you ever get those warm fuzzies when your doing something you absolutely love, well I am discovering that I absolutely love looking at all the beautiful heirloom seeds. Right now my favorite site would probably have to be cherrygal.com, I'm sure I could probably find seeds for a cheaper price or at a seed exchange, but I am thoroughly enjoying the descriptive information and beautiful pictures here. 

 My mind is flying a thousand different ways as I imagine spring, summer and fall with it's vibrant colors, luscious textures and breathtaking odours! The fenced in back yard spotted with various colors throughout the season while I'm praying my sisters new puppy doesn't undo all of my hard work with her curious teeth. 

  I believe we can find in a garden a huge meaning of life; in it being that it is life itself living breathing beauty, asking only of us to be loved, fed, watered and given enough space to grow and develop. Nothing more than what every one else asks of each other. If only that were all we asked of each other and we honored it; life and this world would be so peaceful.

Look to the earth, all you world and those who beg for peace and be like the garden!

Getting Started

Today in addition to starting my new blog; I sat at the computer for about two hours looking through and reading the description of over a hundred different Heirloom Seeds. Lettuces, tomatoes, cukes, ground cherries, lemon grass and many many herbs happen to be my light at the end of the tunnel of a bleak wet winter, be it that my winter will be so much more mild (I hope) than any other, for being three states further south.

Take time to smell the Roses, if it's to cold for Roses then go buy one
Rachel

A New Beginning

    This is my first post of my new blog site, and I have to admit I'm kind of nervous and really excited.
I have in the past had a hard time sticking with things like this, but as the title says 'a new beginning', in more ways than one. I am finally in a place that feels like home, for the first time in my life. It sounds kind of strange and ungrateful but really it's not; it is simply where I am.
I think the way I am contemplating the arrangement of this blog, is it is going to go back and forth from stories of my childhood to stories of my present day Heirloom gardening plans; with no extreme pressure on myself I think I will be able to write here with joy, (yes at times maybe some tears but there is nothing wrong with that).
I want this to be a place where people feel safe, with their emotions. And I want this to be a place where I feel safe with my emotions, for it is my strong desire to be vulnerable in sharing stories about losing loved ones and the few memories I have of them, to ridiculous sister spats to funny moments with animal friends.
The gist of it is that maybe through this I will be able to remember things that I never could before and peel off some life scabs and finally heel. No one will ever be able to truly heal without scars from life wounds, for a scar is a memory and a memory is something that cannot be erased but will only fester if not tended to.  So it is time for me to dig around and pull out any leftover shards from my life wounds and put as much  vitamin E on it to heal it well.

Keep singing with the birds and dancing with the trees
Rachel