Patience and a Drink of Water

Two Leaves

A sweet potato - or was it a yam sat on my kitchen counter patiently waiting it’s turn for…..it sprouted. Three long sprouts standing at attention and, I’m sure, staring at me. I finally cut out the potato, planted it in a pot, in soil….some time in April. I was ready to throw it out but each day decided to give it one more day. Two weeks ago I saw a tiny green shoot that opened into a real leaf. I set the pot outside to get the sun and the shade and some good rain water. In the last two days, in two very hot days, two more leaves have sprouted. The new little one is so tiny it is easy to miss, but by tomorrow I expect to see another full leaf. Sweet potato plants are really quite lovely.

Three Leaves: look closely!

“Why is patience so important?”

“Because it makes us pay attention.”

~ Paul Coelho, author

Why We Stretch and Yawn in the Morning

Tomorrow’s work is full

 of dreams, 

  of plans, 

    of goals

no form until the new day dawns, 

curling quiet at our feet while 

heads still rest on pillows, it 

waits to be fed with new energy.

“Each day is always breaking out anew.

Aspirations swirling round what you do.”

~ Richard L. Ratliff, poet

Tucked In and Beautiful

 

By the sidewalk,

tucked in and beautiful 

a clutch of white lilies bloom.

“Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.”

~ Christina Rossetti, poet

(1830 ~ 1894)