...or was that hope? Whatever. Same difference, right? The important part is the springing.
Gardening is an act of patience, of hope, of love. The love is proven by the patience and the hope; if one did not love, what would one care about the future or the passage of time? Yes, this is a gift of attachment, passionate attachment to the earth and enough attachment to your own life and all the people in it -- even if they're just walking by your front yard and glancing in, even if they're just birds and squirrels popping through for a nest twig here and a quick nosh there -- to dig shallow and deep and drop into darkness seeds of some life to come that you may never even get to see.
When you do get to see it, it's like a kiss on your heart, a deep and fluttering kiss right on the deepest, oldest part of you.
This kind of kiss can bring you to your knees, if only to look closer into the eyes of love.
This kiss can make you sing.
This post is me trying to pass that kiss along, no sooner getting it than trying to move it outward, ever outward, to smear it all over other people, as many as possible, so they can feel it, too.
Love makes you do stuff like that sometimes. (Click below to enlarge.)
Happy Love Thursday, everyone. If I've done my job you can feel this kiss, first of its kind this season, and taste with me how sweet it is.
I feel kissed!
Happy LT.
Posted by: Pastormac's Ann | March 29, 2007 at 07:17 PM
hee hee -- Excellent!
Posted by: Sara | March 29, 2007 at 07:53 PM
Mwaaah! That's from my basil plants :) Happy Love Thursday (although it's now Friday)!
Posted by: sognatrice | March 30, 2007 at 05:38 AM
Mmm, fragrant! :)
Posted by: Sara | March 30, 2007 at 08:52 AM
"The importance is the springing!" Yes and amen to that.
Posted by: patry | March 30, 2007 at 07:55 PM
Yes, we in Massachusetts are very appreciative of spring. Of course, we could still get some vicious snowstorms; and of course we have to remind ourselves of this, not to be gloomsayers, only to protect ourselves against disappointment and gardening disasters which result from zonal denial. It's (winter's) not over 'til it's May, late May.
But that doesn't mean we can't love this, now. :)
Posted by: Sara | March 31, 2007 at 08:10 AM
I so needed to see a bit of the promise of spring. All rain all the time for days here just now. Beautiful flowers!
Posted by: Kay | March 31, 2007 at 07:03 PM
Glad to be of service, Kay! And of course, if the crocuses (croci?) are blooming in Massachusetts, you know it can't be long before they're blooming in Minnesota!
Hang in there. It can't be much longer now. :)
Posted by: Sara | March 31, 2007 at 07:40 PM