Inspiration Found. *Wisdom Dao*

The Jade cove is silent today. Nothing moves inside the cove as if time itself has locked away all the elements. Sitting in meditation waiting for the inspiration to come, and then a Communique came. Inspiration in hidden view. So this feature goes out to my friend, a thought to bring spring upon her winter.

Age has hit me today, My neck is sore, and it feels sore all the way through the bones. I feel old, I feel ancient today. These days are hard on the physical body, but brings me close to the sages. The status read:

Today is one of those days that you just wish you had someone at home to hold and hug you.

Your winter has been present but reflection has just started. When reflecting do not be rough on yourself. Do not focus on could of or would of, instead focus on at least this goods time that occurred or the goods time and the growth that took place. Life is like a child, you grow in spurts.

Think of life as a garden. The first year you plant the corn on the southern section of the garden, then next year you rotate your crops and plant them on the north. During times growth will come from sections in life that are unseen, some from relationships, some from lovers, and some just come from friends.

If you put the corn back in the southern field the second year it will produce less corn and growth is limited. Why? This is because of the nutrients needed were used the previous year for the same type of crop.

Your life is a garden, take well to weed the fields, hoe the ground, and water the plants. If you do not do this daily, then when you do finally get to it the weeds have overgrown, the plants seem dry, and the ground hard. One can still work at the garden and eventually get it back into working order, provided they just work little bit by little bit on catching it up.

Life provides a drought, or a monsoon to try to ruin the garden, but tend the garden and even the harshest weather can not deter growth of the vegetation.

Play the plants some calming music and the better they react, water the vegetation and the more it grows.

Survival means struggle. When one refers to survival mode, then one references to struggle. A thing that is taught in the way is to be like a reed, learn to bend and to give to the pressures and struggles and one will never have to survive.

Life is meant to live, not to survive. The source of stress is from the one receiving the stress. Some things need to be done that could have been done long ago. Learn to bend like a reed, least you get blown over like the Oak.

Time is forgiving, and forgiving oneself is always the hardest than forgiving others. One must learn to let go, to accept what is, is what is needed, and what is not, is not needed at this time. You say there are things that are confusing you, let us help you. You say how can someone understand... How can we not understand, as we have known you since school. The patches in life that we were not there for can easily be filled in, and can easily be worked out with the help of friends.

True friends, those that love you no matter what. Those with no other thought than your happiness are around you. The farmer takes care of the garden, but the garden supplies the farmer with substance.

Put your hands in the soil, dig the weeds out, the longer one waits the more weeds there will be. Time is a matter of concept, how can one do this and that and handle 1000 things in one day. Step by step, thing by thing. Weed the garden, then hoe the garden, and then water. When more than one thing is present focus on doing one thing completely before moving to the next. If the issue was there yesterday, it will be there tomorrow if time did not allow you to get to it today.

Worry not, the garden of life is much more resilient than what is thought of. If you are put into a state of winter for years, you will hit spring sooner or later. But winter presents us the opportunity to reflect and see our growth, see our accomplishments, and allow us to remember good times. If one focuses on bad thoughts or the thought of loss, then one seems to loose the times of happiness they could enjoy.

So what is needed at this point, the answers are known, the garden awaits your arrival, waiting for you hands to bring order back to it's wild growth. When you are sad the garden is empty and the fruit and vegetables are no where to be seen, when you are happy, the vegetation springs to life and produces fruits and vegetables.