If You Want Gardens, Become The Gardener

“If you inherently long for something, become it first.

If you want gardens, become the gardener,

If you want love, embody love.

If you want mental stimulation, change the conversation.

If you want peace, exude calmness.

If you want to fill your world with artists, begin to paint.

If you want to be valued, respect your own time.

If you want to live ecstatically, find the ecstasy within yourself.

This is how to draw it in day by day, inch by inch.”

-Victoria Erickson

This very loving take on being the change you want to see resonates deeply with me.

It is a softer more nurturing way to focus on what is in your control.

At first, it is not easy to move through the world this way.

Or at least it wasn’t for me.

It takes practice and often a guide to help you navigate the unfamiliar and find your flow.

Once you figure it out it’s beautiful.

Ripples of rewards for you everyone else and the world.

More gardens, more art, more love, more peace, and more calm