It definitely takes a degree of patience to wait and watch and then to anticipate Mother Earth awakening from her oh so drowsy sleepy state this year. After all she’s stirring from the depths of a frozen ground that just doesn’t seem to want to let go of its grasp. But she’s so gentle and so caring as she coaxes the soil and the roots of the trees to accept the embrace of the sun's warmth.
Little by little her embrace and her encouragement wake even the littlest of critters who begin stretching toward the sky to feel the warmth from above. The earthworms are her warriors who create those pathways beneath the earth's crust to allow for the spring rains to find their way to water the soils that lay beneath the surface.
It takes our patience too. The harshness this year of winter will not exactly be forgotten too quickly.
Beginning with a degree of gratitude always helps to pave the way as the days grow longer and the sunshine wraps itself around every inch of our external world.
Start by recognizing the incredible blue of the sky. Devoid now more and more each day of the threatening dark clouds that carried freezing rains and ice crystals.
The billowing cloud shapes are back displaying forms that encourage our creativity again. Is it a horse or a dragon?
Mother Earth knows. It’s her maternal instincts that allow for our own individuality to decide for ourselves.
Welcoming the first of those adorable plants that are the bravest little ones to push through the warmest borders is a sure sign that Mother Earth has waved her magic wand…beckoning the daffodils and crocuses to come out to play. What a joy to see how many of these wonders have multiplied each year.
It’s rewarding to witness the tiny buds that begin to fill out the trees and flowering bushes nearest our homes.
We know what’s coming. Delicious fragrances that will fill our worlds for weeks adding to the celebrations.
My grandmother had a way of coaxing the lazy fig tree to awaken. She would, oh so gently, tap on the trunk of this fruit tree and encourage it to “Wake up, wake up, it’s time!”
I still carry on that tradition to this day with the fondest of memories. By the way, my grandma must have had a special relationship with Mother Earth because this practice of awakening the fig tree worked every time.
Yes, this all takes some patience to allow for “HER” work to take form. Chilly are the mornings still…the afternoon breeziness drives home the point that these changes take time. Focusing on the slow and steady pace as this season unfolds will ensure that we don’t miss a single element of this work that Mother Earth is executing in her own way and in her own timing.
Don’t miss a minute of this beauty that is unfolding.
Let it be as it is intended to be…a season of growth and beauty.
Mother Earth knows what she’s doing…teaching us patience at a slow and steady pace.
Pat Larsen lives and works and plays in Greene County, NY. She’s a syndicated columnist. Author of her first book,
REFLECTIONS…ANYTHING BUT AN ORDINARY LIFE, available on Amazon.com.
Feel free to contact Pat at pelarsen5@aol.com or at 518-275-8686 to chat.
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