By Susan Heydon

As some of Nick’s readers may remember, Maggie started a farming project last year. Well guess what?? We are up to our necks again this year. We were so excited about getting started, what to plant, getting our hands dirty, aching muscles etc!! now, a few weeks into the season we’re really excited. Yes we did expand somewhat. It is almost like an addiction. You just have to buy more. Just not one of us, we all seem to be carrying the “buying “gene. So consequently I planted my heart out!! My friends at the farm are also cleaning up an old antique seeder so I won’t have to bend over so much. !!!Wow just too thoughtful.

We did lose a few tomatoes to the late frost but the “tomato guy” found more and we replaced them. We’re trying some heirloom varieties this year so will keep you posted on how well they produce. We didn’t have to worry about planting potatoes this year as our friends rented their fields and we are surrounded by rows of them. I’m sure they won’t miss a few come fall!!! I know you’ll keep that info under your hats!!! Our new veggie rows this year are parsnips, carrots and runner beans, one bed of cucumbers and one of zucchini. The rest is tomatoes and the usually crops. Okay I have to confess I did plant some flowers. My in-town lot just does not get a lot of full sun to grow some plants well, so out to the farm they went. The sweet peas and dahlias are doing really well. I’ve even taken out some extra day lilies and cannas. We all know how quickly they multiple. Maggie has found her resting spot again, almost on top of the peppers!! and still checks out everything before relaxing and getting a little shut eye. I think in her heart she has a country soul. Maybe animals also have that earth connection too .Anyway you “slice” it, all three of us are happy when we turn onto that road and head south.

Last week as an added bonus we spotted a doe and fawn at the edge of a grain field. The fawn was quite small and still had all his spots. Maggie’s nose and ears were both twitching. She knew they were there and didn’t make a sound. We sat and watched the two of them for 10 minutes before Mum decided we were too close for comfort and they moved back closer to the bush. The “tomato” guy has a new digital camera so we now have a lovely picture to finish off the day. As we head back home at the end of the day, the sunsets have been incredible. We may even stop and have a picnic on our way home. Maggie loves those. She gets to have treats and do more exploring. Why wouldn’t the three of us be content, life was perfect.

Editor’s Note

Buried in Produce will probably be Susan’s next update. She can catch us up with the how the season went.

While I was home earlier this year I had the opportunity to go out to the “Farm” and see the veggie garden which is more like a big field. The spot is truly beautiful. The setting communicates. The silence is deep and loud. A place to sit and allow the silence in.

Nick

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A Tree Stands Still in Time: Courtesy of Pauline DeForest

Nick’s Laws of Inverse Logic
Law #2
The amount of time you have is reduced in direct proportion to your need for it.
Or: Trees live so long because they live very slowly.

A lie inhabits the very core of time. The hourglass is a graphic image of the lie: the grains of sand running through the narrow center appear limited and cannot be slowed down or stopped.

The truth is time is extremely fluid or elastic and can be slowed, speeded up, twisted and yes even stopped.

Unfortunately we are so aware of the ticking clock we allow the tick tock, tick tock, to rule our lives.
There is a simple proof of this elasticity which I think you have all experienced. Think back to a time when you had to go somewhere, a long way away for the first time. Didn’t it seem to take forever to get there? Yet the next time you travel to that place, even when you take the same route at the same time of day, it doesn’t seem to take as long, and it doesn’t seem so far away.

Our present day understanding of quantum physics adds to the view of time as extremely elastic.
All our time management systems are base on a shortage of time and attempt to manage all the competing tasks in some hierarchy that offers you a way to pick the most important tasks. These methods simply manage a scarcity and we all know what the Law of Attraction says about that.

Our modern society exemplifies our manic obsession with time. As our awareness of time grows, with every gadget in our house having an LED digital clock, with time checks on car radios, and car clocks, our scarcity is reinforced almost every second. A quick walk around the house revealed 17 devices that tell time including a coffee maker, microwave oven, cell phone, computers, wrist watch, radio alarms and more. Everywhere we look we see the tick tock man counting down our time.

Conversely in the darkness of the middle ages, man did not know his life by clocks or watches. He lived out his life unsure of the time, the day, the month, the year or even the century. His life revolved around the slow turning of the seasons. He did not have a wall calendar with pretty flowers. He might know his birthday, if there was a village with a church nearby to record his birth. His mother may have died in the year the river last flooded or the bad harvest.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not advocating we revert to the middle ages. Life there was hard and short, at least from our view.

Change did not conflict the man of the middle ages. He could go his entire life with very little change; no new subdivisions, or new roads, or airports. A trip to the village might be a whole day affair that now takes us half an hour by car.

If we can do that, travel around the world in a day, drive a hundred miles in a single hour, enjoy all the machines of modern convenience; washing machines, dryers, food processors, hot running water, why then do we suffer for such a lack of time?

Look at a tree. No literally, go look at a tree. Does it count down the dying seconds of its life? Look at it standing there in stately disinterest; does it measure time in anyway? We do! We count the rings of a tree and come up with a good estimate of its age. But does the tree know? Does it care? A tree is simply there, in the present living in the moment.

The tree doesn’t stand outside of time in our view, but in its view time is simply not an issue.

Listen to what Eckhart Tolle says in his book The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
. In talking about the most precious thing “The Now”, he explains:

“Why is it the most precious thing? Firstly, because it is the only thing. It’s all there is. The eternal present is the space within which your whole life unfolds, the one factor that remains constant. Life is now. …Now is the only point that can take you beyond the limited confines of the mind. It is your only point of access into the timeless and formless realm of being.”

You have the power to step outside of time by living totally in the present, like a tree. A tree does not think about the past or worry about the future, it just is.

So remember, the next time you are chasing after time, going faster and faster so you have time to cram in an evening with your spouse over a quiet dinner where you can linger by the candle light and gaze into each other’s eyes, you are doing just the opposite, reducing the time you have.

Step out of the river of time onto the sandy bank of an island pulsing with the joy of the present moment. Stop your head long rush toward your destiny and be a tree, if only for a little while, if only to gain a little sanity, if only to catch your breath before you wade back into the river.

You deserve more time than you have, but only you have the power to gain it back by recognizing you can step outside of time and stop the whole onward rush with one deep breath.

Think about the tree.

Nick

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