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On nature and abundance

*Thursday, 15th of July 2021* This week's prompt (No 8) in @JonicaBradley 's challenge is Nature. I surely don't need an invitation to write about this subject. If you follow me on noise.cash, you know that nature is pretty much all I ever post about. Only occasionally I post about anything else, after all I am a Gaia Lover. Check out my article about green thumb, roses and snails if you still have any doubts. https://read.cash/@fantagira/green-thumb-is-a-myth-9bb5118d https://read.cash/@fantagira/come-enjoy-my-roses-with-me-11bfe76a https://read.cash/@fantagira/my-love-hate-relationship-with-snails-4fd7ec0c Speaking of nature. Today I spent maybe 2 hours inside and the rest of my day I spent with nature. Similarly to most of my mornings, I made myself a cup of coffee, poured a glass of water, picked up my notebooks, phones and seat pad and went out my front door to sit barefoot on my doorstep, while aligning myself to the morning sun. Whenever I can, I spend my morning facing the East (front of my house), my evenings in the West (back of my house), my indoor hours facing the South and I sleep with my head facing North. Just like the Earth's axis gets tilted with time, so do our bodies get out of alignment. This little practice ensures better alignment of my body to Earth's magnetics.

My morning routine it varied in activities. Sometimes I read articles or make some noise. I catch up with friend's messages, I jot down my dreams if I can remember them, I make notes in my diary or read a gardening magazine. Whatever the day, I spend most of this time staring at my plants and people walking past my house. Thanks to this little routine I rarely miss anything happening in my little garden. Sooner or later I get off my bum and inspect the plants up close. Usually with a pair of scissors in my hand, so I can do some deadheading.

Nature is abundant! There is this weird belief that we have as humans. That is living in lack and scarcity. If you have a TV (I don't) turning on any channel you will hear things about how we are all in debt and there is never enough to go around. Governments of most countries are in huge debts, although it's hard to gather who are we all owning it too? On the contrary, it's quite the opposite when you observe nature. These days ants really show me just how abundance works. No matter how many little houses I try to disturb to encourage them to move somewhere else, they just keep building new houses at a huge speed. I mean, where do they get money from for all these houses? Ohh wait, they're not as stupid as humans, who think we can't live with no money. Money was only ever invented as a way of exchanging goods, so we don't have to carry our apples from our garden to the brick maker, because he might not want apples. But humans made it into a status thing, where those who amassed most can do more than those who have less. What an utter stupidity.

Or take flowers for example. Those that I use in my hanging baskets and other pots compositions are mainly big and mini petunias, pansies, geraniums, lobelia, dahlias and some greens to break the colours. If you grow any of these, you know that one of the secrets to getting them going throughout the season is a regular deadheading. That means removing all the spent flowers, before they set the seeds. Once your plants go into seed growing mode, they become a little lazy, until they stop flowering altogether. The reason why plants flower is to reproduce and once this is completed (seed pods), the plant has done it's job and it might not bother with flowering anymore. Sometimes I don't get to all my plants on time and they are already well on the way to making a seed pod. I usually let them be then. A few seed pods are ok and some I also leave on purpose, like those gorgeous petunia Night Sky, which I promised @Judith1969 to send the seeds of, as it is rather an unusual type, which is hard to come by.

So you see, nature knows no lack. It just keeps growing back, keeps giving more and more. Similar with veggies like courgettes for example. If you let courgettes stay on for too long, the plant will stop producing, but if you keep harvesting, your plant will keep giving you more, until the end of the season.

This is just one of the reasons why I love nature and why I spend so much time observing it and just soaking the goodness of it. After my morning session in the East, I usually spend a little time at home, either doing some chores or working on my laptop. Today the weather was very nice, so I decided to also spend some more time in the back garden. No matter how much time I spend 'working' in the garden, there is always more to do. Today, I managed to repot many plants which desperately needed it. It's been rather productive day and evening, while making sure my West is also well aligned.

My days are not always this productive. Some days I just sit in my garden barefoot to soak some free electrons from momma Earth. This simple technique has a grounding effect. Just as electricity needs to be grounded to avoid power outages, so do we need to be grounded to restore balance in our bodies, which is disturbed by screens and other electronical gadgets we use. I make sure to do this as often as I can.

Nature is by far my favourite topic to write about. I get too much of human interaction at times and often I need time off and some quality 'me' time. I don't have this issue with nature. I don't ever get bored of it. Gaia never gets in the way of my 'me' time and 2 in 1 combination in this case, always works a treat for me. How about you, my readers? Do you also love nature? Have you written your article about nature this week? If not, get writing. I'd love to read about it. Until next time 💙

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