The seed is cosy and comfortable underground, but if it doesn't stretch to reach the light, it never grows, it just rots.
This page started with the stripes, the lighter stripes at the top suggesting sunlight, and the lower ones strata in the earth. I wanted to put something in the cosy little dark place, and a seed seemed to be the most appropriate thing. A seed sits in the earth, but it needs to germinate and grow. If it just sits there, it will eventually lose the potential for growth and rot away.
Are there places in your life where you have stopped reaching towards the light, where you are letting the seed of something rot instead of grow? Cosy and comfortable is fine for a time, but don't become so ensconced that you stop living.
What a great page, and such deep thoughts, totally in sync with the seeds down below. I've been thinking a good deal about how I can keep growing as John settles further and further into his dementia and care-giving takes so much of my time. Work smaller, play harder, experiment wildly and work faster are becoming watchwords.
ReplyDeleteYou do a magnificent job of carving out those little pockets of time, Win, as evidenced by your prolific output. And isn't it just the way that the more calls there are on our time, the more important it is to make those times of creativity happen?
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