15/12/2024
✨🌱 wisdom…
How to get stuff done. I had a guitar teacher who said "No matter how bad it sounds, pick up your guitar every day and play it for at least a little while, and you'll progress." I've faced big tasks before, like hand-weeding an entire field of corn, and what I find is really no different from my guitar teacher's advice--If I do a row or two every day, the work gets done. Later I look at the field as the sun goes down, and the little green leaves wave at me. "Thanks," they say. So there you are in your greenhouse, and that pile of used pots is looking at you again. If you just pick up a couple of pots every day and repurpose them--wash them out, up-pot an aloe or whatever, then random ugliness will soon become beauty. This is my approach to the matter. Yes, all of nature is composed of circles and cycles, but the human can find purchase in the cycle through linear accrual. I had a monumental book project (Growing Plant Medicine Vol 2) to accomplish. It loomed. So I made it more reasonable by just doing a page daily. From the beginning story to the last addendum, all in order. The entire process took 190 days. And here's the crux of it, perhaps. When I was done, I felt more lively than when I started. Like the guitar, the melodies became more melodious with practice. I felt a little better about myself. There were a lot of stupid things I would have done with my time if I hadn't been focusing. Its quite a ride, people. Do a few little, good things every day. Dedicate the merit to all sentient beings. Your little efforts make a big difference in a world fraught with nonsense. Keep going.
