Winter said goodbye in the last week with winds between 60-70kmH, and spring arrived with even stronger winds this week. Here some Garden Wisdom reflections when life gets taught.
While I was warm and cozy at home, doing art and listening music with a friend, while I was checking the weather forecast, and having snacks and later yummy beetroot soup from the garden, the plants were in the cold, at the mercy of the aggressive wind, even up to 120km/H.
Next to the bus stop, on the street, I could see the damage of the weather. Trees were broken and some infrastructure was destroyed and removed. While we have some damage just in the Greenhouse.
I felt, the little plants were tired bending from one side to another. But there they were flowing, dancing with the wind, adapting to the harshness and cold of the environment. They didn't have the information I have, detail of the orientation of the wind, timing will be strongest wind and quieter wind, data about how cold or hot will be the weather after this phenomenon.
The wind was even worst that night I woke up in the night and in the moonlight I saw how the trees were moving in distress, I even thought that the neighbor's palm trees would fly onto the road, I even thought my home and I would fly into the air! hahahah.
But it didn't happen, I comeback to sleep again.
And the next day the garden was still there, shining with the morning light, everything continued dancing with the wind and although that music and frequency was not their favourite music to dance with, they followed the rhythm of nature, without fear, without anxiety, without frustration, without time, without pressure, without control.
The storm passed and my lesson is resilience. When life get's tough, go with the wind. The structures I saw on the street were damaged because they were to rigid, you cannot fight elements of nature, nature always win, and will break you if you keep resisting.
My lesson is trust my own nature: I am the sky, the clouds, the sun, I am those little plants we sow-grow with so much love. I have to trust that storm will come, will pass, and along the way I learn and evolve.
This is an invitation to appreciate the beauty of ecology outside of anthropology. This space, Garden Wisdom (garden) tells me: Let's be the wind and let's dance together.
With all my love,
Let's keep changing the world gardening.
-Ninna Mar
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