I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll spend the rest of the miles you're given. With warmth, wit, and wisdom, author Joyce McGreevy encourages us to look to gardening as a source of creativity, spirituality, and inspiration. In this excerpt from her book, Gardening by Heart , McGreevy gives us a refresher course in the merits of patience. People have schedules.
Plants have cycles.
People will stay up late, get up early, skip meals, cut corners, drive too fast, and otherwise work themselves into a frenzy to get something done in less time. Some people live their entire lives this way, rushing from one thing to the next, perpetually poised to seize the future. Plants aren't like that. Oh, sure, you can root-prune a tomato plant to trick the fruit into ripening sooner. You can soak seeds overnight to hasten sprouting.