Dedication
Oct. 15th, 2004 05:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dedekind_cutEchoing the words of our dear Mary, on October 2nd I wrote:
"I declare, before the members of this list, that I consider myself a
member of the Grok Fellowship and this Fellowship to be a church. I will plant bulbs on October 15th as a devotion and a sign of faith that this Fellowship will grow and flower with time and nurturing."
I've spent much time since then meditating on those words, on the short-term and long-term implications of this statement.
Last Saturday I planted 40 Siberian squill in the shade garden, imbuing them with the positive energy I see manifesting around Grok Fellowship. I blessed them, and put down fertilizer, and watered them well. Then I worked my way through the gardens, cutting down dead plants and exposing the soil.
Last Sunday I moved some plants in the back garden, taking out a couple and shifting the others to give them more light and show them off to better advantage. Then I planted a dozen small pink allium there, once again blessing them to grow and prosper as I hope Grok Fellowship will.
Last night I popped some overgrown echinacea out of the ground, and took it to work today to share with coworkers who have moved to new homes, with bare new gardens.
Today it rained most of the day, but the sun came out just as I was driving home. It's cold outside - 45 degrees - but I changed clothes and rushed out to plant a dozen Puschkinia in the front garden. They are lovely white and blue flowers that bloom early, in March or April. Fertilizer, water, and blessings accompanied them into the ground.
I have more to plant - 18 white tulips, 24 bicolor daffodils (white with yellow centers,) 60 crocus, 3 lilies, 12 light blue grape hyacinth. I think that's everything, though I may make another trip to the plant store if next weekend's weather is as good as we expect.
All my work this autumn is dedicated to the memory of what I treasured in CAW, and what I hope Grok Fellowship will become. As I cut down the year's growth, spread compost, divide and move plants, plan next spring's divisions, I think about the good experiences and good people CAW brought into my life. I consider how we might manifest more of that goodness within Grok Fellowship.
And I think of the work we have already accomplished, and look forward to its flowering.
"I declare, before the members of this list, that I consider myself a
member of the Grok Fellowship and this Fellowship to be a church. I will plant bulbs on October 15th as a devotion and a sign of faith that this Fellowship will grow and flower with time and nurturing."
I've spent much time since then meditating on those words, on the short-term and long-term implications of this statement.
Last Saturday I planted 40 Siberian squill in the shade garden, imbuing them with the positive energy I see manifesting around Grok Fellowship. I blessed them, and put down fertilizer, and watered them well. Then I worked my way through the gardens, cutting down dead plants and exposing the soil.
Last Sunday I moved some plants in the back garden, taking out a couple and shifting the others to give them more light and show them off to better advantage. Then I planted a dozen small pink allium there, once again blessing them to grow and prosper as I hope Grok Fellowship will.
Last night I popped some overgrown echinacea out of the ground, and took it to work today to share with coworkers who have moved to new homes, with bare new gardens.
Today it rained most of the day, but the sun came out just as I was driving home. It's cold outside - 45 degrees - but I changed clothes and rushed out to plant a dozen Puschkinia in the front garden. They are lovely white and blue flowers that bloom early, in March or April. Fertilizer, water, and blessings accompanied them into the ground.
I have more to plant - 18 white tulips, 24 bicolor daffodils (white with yellow centers,) 60 crocus, 3 lilies, 12 light blue grape hyacinth. I think that's everything, though I may make another trip to the plant store if next weekend's weather is as good as we expect.
All my work this autumn is dedicated to the memory of what I treasured in CAW, and what I hope Grok Fellowship will become. As I cut down the year's growth, spread compost, divide and move plants, plan next spring's divisions, I think about the good experiences and good people CAW brought into my life. I consider how we might manifest more of that goodness within Grok Fellowship.
And I think of the work we have already accomplished, and look forward to its flowering.
