Spring has finally sprung ’round these parts, despite this morning’s being chock full of fog and drizzle. I won’t be going outside to do any yard work just now, but that’s fine with me. A cup of tea, a good book, and a lot of practicing my music sounds perfect for this morning.

They say this afternoon might clear a bit so if the sun does decide to poke its nose out of the clouds I’ll go on and head back to the garden.

It’s about a third of the way to where it needs to be, my garden. Might take another day or two of work to finish cleaning and weeding and tilling, but I guess I’m up for it as long as Mother Nature cooperates.

Yeah, I’m assuming the snow’s gone for good now. Or at least gone until next winter. Then again, this is New England so you never know.

I do know that I’m not terribly excited to be cleaning out the garden. Mostly because I’m never excited to be cleaning out the garden. It’s just hard work, you know? Also, I’m not a really big fan of getting dirt under my fingernails. Or of raking. Or of pulling out weeds that most emphatically don’t want to be pulled out. And don’t even get me started on the rocks.

I do, however, love picking fresh produce for dinner.

And I know that without the cleaning, there’ll be no harvesting.

But the truth is that I never really know where to start.

Do I start with the weeds or the raking or the picking up of the hundreds of thousands of rocks in the soil? (Also, where in the world do these rocks come from if you clean them out every year?)

Not knowing where to start can sometimes stop you from starting in the first place.

But I do know that it’s time to do the work. Because the seasons really have changed and even if I don’t know exactly where to start I do know this – I will harvest nothing at all if I don’t start somewhere.

So I start. Anywhere.

And it’s really that simple – you simply start.

Start weeding. Start exercising. Start eating healthy. Start the class. Start writing or painting or doing one small thing that will move you one small step closer to your harvest.

You just start.

It’s not always fun. It’s not always easy.

You might get some dirt under your fingernails.

But if you don’t start somewhere, anywhere, you won’t harvest anything.

So maybe you know it’s time for a change and you don’t know where in the world to start?

Just start somewhere.

~xo,
LuAnne