Blooming roses and the beauty of growth

Good morning! It is just before 8 a.m. on the West Coast and I just came back from walking my dog and I stepped outside and saw that a whole bush of my roses has started to bloom and I can't tell y'all how excited I am because when we first bought this house the previous owner had taken so much care with all of the roses in front and she had vegetables growing on the side of the house. She was a true green thumb and I was the furthest thing from it.

So I watched these poor roses die because I didn't know what to do with them and truth be told I really didn't have an interest in learning at the time. I was busy. I had just started my business blah blah blah blah but what a difference you know a year makes.

I have been so connected to nature in the last year as I've deepened my spiritual journey and I have fallen in love with plants. I have indoor plants now. Not just the one that is held on out of spite since the pandemic but a real plant wall now and these roses.

These roses in the front are so special because it represents for me friendship. A dear friend I used to work with, Doug, used to be my former boss. He came over, we had lunch, and he taught me how to prune my roses and, at this time, it was just the dead bushes. He helped me learn how to prune all of that back, feed the roses, and in just a few short months I have beautiful pink, red, and yellow roses blooming in my front yard.

I can't help but see it as a metaphor for not only the cycles of life, the rhythms of nature, but the cycles of human growth and how you really do have to prune back what is no longer of service. You have to prune what has died, is dying, to make room for that new beautiful thing to bloom in your life.

So I'm proud of myself for learning how to take care of these natural beauties. You know I see plants as such a gift from the earth so I'm proud that they are now alive and well again and it's cool to learn a new skill and be able to enjoy the fruits, or the roses, pun intended, of my labor.

Take care y'all.