Easy Does It

Some seeds I planted in my work life are taking shape and spreading out.

Speaking of spreading out, my garden has seen so many changes in the last few months. Little tiny shoots just inches long, poking out of the edge of the soil have opened into lush, wide, leafy mounds that I can sit inside of! Seeing them transform makes me ask, What is our inherent creative capacity?

Looking at them the answer seems to be: It is to grow as wide and big and in whatever way we do.

But when I think about growing as my spirit intends I start to think of limits placed on me. Growing freely means defying the space “given” to us in a society based on creating boundaries and enforcing borders.

To be creative (in all ways) is a subversive process. To claim our natural curiosity and growth impulse - like a leaf does - is to live and spill outside of pre-determined limits.

The plants offered me a rich reminder that the creative spirit we live with, and that lives within us, is boundless. Even (especially) when we cannot put words around what we are trying out and reaching for.