Garden Zen

tending the garden is a lot like cultivating the mind maintaining balance, harmony and symbiosis is essential for both flora and fauna providing proper PH for the soil, fertilizing and feeding each plant with the right kind of food mindful irrigation, going with the flow plenty of bustling sunshine as well as periods of deep shade and contemplation and lets not forget those blessed weeds only takes a good spring rain to turn your botanical oasis into a wild and woolly patch of snarling jungle animals chattering monkeys swinging from rampant running vines tenacious elephants stomping over shrinking african violets hungry, growling lions stalking the marigolds take a deep breath, get centered try not to curse them after all, it has been said that one man's weed is another man's flower gently I tug the miscreant roots and regain my composure realizing, they too, have a place in the Cosmic scheme of things the brass Buddha smiling between the hawaiian plumeria and ruffled hot pink hibiscus winks at me as I evenly, attentively, consciously align and establish stepping stones on the Middle path