People tell me, “You’re so lucky to live such a flower-filled life.”
Usually I just smile at this, but I want to ask them, “Are you sure the cold, achy, detailed work that goes into building a flower farm each year is… luck?”
It’s actually: me making daily choices based more on my goals than my feelings.
Feelings are important and good, and I’m sitting with them intentionally more this year than ever before, but if I let them rule me when it’s time to get to work, I won’t get the work done.
Lots of the time, I don’t feel like doing the hard thing.
But if we want the *outcome* of doing the hard thing… friends, let’s do the hard thing. ????
✨ What could you accomplish this year, this month, this week, even today, if we tackled the hard thing?!
I’m out surfing the web, as I would surely injure myself in the ocean.
While searching for firework-looking flowers I discovered your home page.
Regarding “Hard Work”
Despite all the planning and our hard work,
farming often seems luck related.
Last year was tough, and I think I am most very “lucky”;
Lyme disease put me down and the weeds went up.
I learned to let go.
It was needful after being a bulldog worker to build a new farm.
At 60, I choose to follow the feelings and keep my health; both physical and emotional.
If I have to break for a drink, a dance and a song- its gotta happen!
I have the personality that sacrifices myself to the goal, family, common good, price savings, beating nature to the punch, etc. You name it, I’m last on the list. I believe that’s common among women.
After a growing season in 2022 of exhaustion, illness, pain, being invaded by foreign creatures who ruled my mind and emotions, I choose self awareness.
Hard work is needful, especially in season.
Farming and Hard Work are gloves to each hand;
Farming and Lifestyle too.
I am choosing a Lifestyle framework for farming ( Inventing it as I write: Lifestyle Farming: a Niche for Everyone!) rather than a Business framework. After all, the business is occurring in the midst of my Home.
Interrupting a hot afternoon with a swim or dip, drinking lots of water when the heat is too hot for man or plant, and plenty of sit down before I drop down are all power for the course.
Headphones with great music or podcasts to keep the energy going, as well as a diet of whole fruits and greens. Honestly though, I see the difference in my days when I begin with prayer and Bible reading. If I missed it, I miss it.
Today, I feel very energized for the coming Spring, and with herbal care, I expect to stay Lyme free.
Here’s wishing you more than luck for 2023.
Many Blessings!
Cynthia
(upstate NY)
Hi Cynthia! We’re glad you’re here! Welcome!
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