The garden and life may actually work in very similar ways.
So here I am again, coffee living beside me even today while the house is still asleep and the cat has already gone out on its little morning adventure. Yesterday we went into town to buy metal edging for our apple trees, and suddenly a few stones and a small garden project turned into thoughts about how life itself grows step by step.
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The Garden and Life Are Built in Small Steps
So here I am again.
And even today, the coffee lives here beside me.
The house is quiet because everyone is sleeping, and the cat has already gone out for its little morning walk. There is something special about those first hours before the rest of the world wakes up. Thoughts have more room then.
Yesterday we went into town to buy metal edging for the trees around our yard. I still had some stones left after finishing the raised garden beds in the front yard, and now I have started planning another little project around our apple trees. Black fabric underneath, metal edging around it and stones on top. I think it will both look beautiful and make things easier to maintain.
But as soon as one thought arrives, another follows.
Now my brain has already started thinking:
“Well… maybe we could redo the entire garden…”
But I probably should not have that much fun all at once.
And maybe life works a little like that too.
While sitting there with my coffee, I started thinking about how much a garden actually resembles life itself.
Life never becomes finished simply because we decide something.
We can set goals, dreams and plans — but it is the small steps that truly matter. One step today. Another tomorrow. And suddenly you realize you have actually come farther than you thought.
Maybe that is why I sometimes try to slow myself down a little.
Because if I finish everything immediately, I will soon discover even more projects. More ideas. More things to change. And perhaps I will even grow tired of stones before everything is done.
So maybe it is better to do things little by little.
Finish the small part you are working on right now and let the rest grow forward over time.
Rome was not built in a day.
And neither is a life.
Not a house.
Not a garden.
Not us humans either.
The Garden and Life Change Over Time
The strange thing is that some projects are never truly finished.
They are a little like cooking dinner, everyday life or the growing that happens inside ourselves. We continue. Adjust things. Rethink. Begin again.
Suddenly one day you realize you have outgrown a color, a thought or perhaps even an older version of yourself.
A new chapter quietly arrives before you even notice when it happened.
Funny how many thoughts a few apple trees and some metal edging can create.
The Garden and Life at Alfred’s Birthday Celebration
While we were out shopping, we also found a large ball and immediately thought about Alfred.
So after unloading the car at home, we brought the ball, an easel and a bike rack over to Malou’s house.
Birthday celebration number two for Alfred was already in full swing there.
Eight children were running through the house playing absolutely everywhere. There was noise and movement everywhere, I can tell you that.
My daughter’s partner looked at the clock and said:
“It’s 1:20 PM. In forty minutes it will finally calm down.”
I laughed and said:
“But can’t they play outside in the garden?”
“Well… maybe for the last little while. But they are wild and it will definitely look like it afterwards.”
And honestly… he probably had a point.
But the children were having fun.
And that is still what matters most.
We also got to taste the birthday cakes once again — even though I probably did not need more sweets.
Now it is probably time for a little break from treats for my part.
Reflection About the Garden and Life
Maybe life is less about becoming finished and more about continuing to create something you enjoy living inside.
A few stones here.
A new thought there.
A birthday party full of laughter.
A cup of coffee in the quiet morning.
And right in the middle of all that, life continues — without needing to be perfect or complete.
The Garden and Life Are Never Truly Finished
Maybe this is what the text is really about.
Not only apple trees, stones and metal edging.
But how we humans are almost always continuing to build our lives.
We think:
“When this is finally finished… then I will relax.”
But then another thought appears. Another dream. Another little change.
And perhaps that is not failure.
Perhaps that is simply life.
We outgrow things.
We discover new colors, new thoughts and new ways of being. Just like in a garden where one thing stops blooming while something else is only beginning.
And maybe the blog is a little like that too.
It is not built in one day either.
It grows word by word, post by post and through small projects here and there. One new thought one day, another picture of life the next. Sometimes a library post, sometimes statistics, sometimes simply a few lines written from the kitchen table early in the morning while the coffee is still warm.
And just like life and the garden, I do not think the blog is ever supposed to become completely “finished.”
It gets to change together with me.
In the middle of everything, we try to create small places of peace:
a cup of coffee, a few stones around a tree, a children’s birthday party full of laughter or simply the feeling of waking up before the rest of the house.
We are probably never completely finished.
But maybe we do not need to be.
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Do you also have projects in life that are never completely finished — but still feel important to continue?
Yesterday has already come to rest in history, tomorrow waits further ahead. But right now — this is where life happens.
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