Let it be wild


Happy Spring Equinox.
Yesterday I made flower arrangements in Lotusland with friends.
There was gratitude and mediation and wine and chocolates and botanical offerings pulled from the earth and put into earthen vessels.
We were encouraged to pay attention. To let the flowers lead. To not be afraid or precious. To not bend the botany to fit our design. To let it be wild and unruly. To fortify stems like scaffolding in bottoms of jars to hold one another up.
What we pay attention to, grows.
Deeper attention makes us better stewards: of the land, the flower arrangements, of each other.
Letting go of the need to bend things to our will, allows things to happen in unexpected and beautiful ways.
Proverb: The magic is in the mess.