Hope all of you are in good health and well-being. While waiting for my tomato sauce to cook down I found time to ponder preservation. Fall is a time of letting go. Many of our relatives in nature show us the beauty in letting go like the swelled and parted pods of milkweed plants. The clusters of silky-haired seeds waiting to be drawn out of the pod by the wind and carried off. Some of the trees here are already turning colors too. Preparing to release their leaves so the heaviness of winter can move through them and not be a burden.
I’m preserving what the garden is letting go of today. Stems weighed down with ripe fruit, full of sunshine and warmth to help winter not be a burden to me. I am remembering to release what is ripe within myself too. Before it rots. Our heavy ripe fruit can be hidden under dense foliage. Keep looking. You know where to find it. Set good seeds down now to sprout in spring.
It takes effort to bring the harvest in but your worth it.
Sweet Wisdoms 