June 9th, 2010 Beauty and the Garden
An old friend once commented that “it is not my job to create beauty.” When I heard it, I could not quite process it and the comment stuck in my mind. While I was working in the gardens tonight it finally occurred to me: I like creating beauty. In fact, I will even say that I love creating beauty. This evening I cleared out a weed-overgrown area of my flower beds and I planted begonias – the kind with soft pink flowers and pale green leaves. I planted them in a half-circle. In my mind, I was painting colors on the canvas of soil.
Maybe it’s a feminine thing, the deep, inspired love for creating beauty. I only know that I find such joy in arranging, observing, clearing, adding, and so forth …. until something beautiful appears.
