What connection is there to a well kept piece of property and a healthy mind? What is it that calls our attention to an over grown, unkept yard? What is so unsettling about it? Have you noticed any difference in your emotional response to a well kept neighborhood and one that is – simply put – a mess? Read with me from A Cherokee Feast of Days the musing of Joyce Sequichie Hifler about how our care of the earth reflects something of how healthy our minds are. “Flowers keep us close to the earth and show us what repetition can do. When we are good planters and caretakers we see results – not just once but many times in many ways. We see the garden in our minds before we plant, and we see its needs and what we can do to make it better. But the garden in the mind stretches farther than just flowers and vegetables. It needs the same careful cultivation – never letting the weed of illness or strife or discord take root. This garden blooms year round and we should refuse to let it become a weed patch.” “It is a day of beauty and bright sunshine. I rejoice that we can all meet here as friends, eat our bread and meat in communion, smoke the council pipe and the pipe of peace.” Plenty Coups – Crow Nation Chief. It has oft been said that we are what we eat. We are what we take into ourselves. What we feed our minds is no less formative than the food we eat. It seems reasonable to say that the care we show to our world reflects the type of human we are. G’Nite Y’All. Rest well. Plant a garden, cultivate it – if no where but in your mind. Care for it and find joy in it – doing this will motivate and change you.
Posted on: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 02:37:30 +0000
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