“I feel like a wet Seed, wild in the Hot Blind earth.” — William Faulkner

This picture was taken at the Botanical Gardens in Cleavland.  Its a small, compact little wonderland of a garden there right in the heart of downtown. When I found the quote above I just ooohed and aaaahed over it immediately.  It is one that will stay with me forever. Like the Cleavland Botanical Gardens it is compact, but packs quite a punch.  Certain quotes just resonate with each of us, but I am very drawn to quotes about the Creative Process and not just the artistic, creative process, but the creative process of shaping our lives. 

As humans, we are like that seed…wet, green, new… and so small in a big world.  Yet inside that seed is the full potential of who we can be, or really who we truly already are if we listen to ourselves.  The earth is surely vast and dark, and we the little seeds vibrate in the depths of it, ready to explode up and through, into being. 

What is your passion?  Your dreams? 

Are you making time for them?  Are you planting yourself so as to get to where you want to be?  Are you taking the space each day to cease “doing” and just “be”?  Start slowing down, sitting quietly, journaling or anything else that will help you turn you seed over in your hand.  Once you know what it is, plant it deep in the soil of your life…nurture it calmly, patiently with small steps. Then watch it grow…”wild in the hot, blind earth.”