What has been happening over the last few months

Hi again,
Keeping up with the blog is quite hard for me. Between looking after elderly parents, keeping in touch with grownup kids, of course coaching my gorgeous clients (always a joy) and trying to find time to improve my creative skills via my botanical art. Of course their was always that two weeks rest and relaxation that my husband and I had in June. That took up some time all that eating great indonesian food, swimming in the wonderful pool right outside our private villa. Reading lots of books and generally enjoying the wonderful climate in Bali. So as you can see I have had my hands full, well that is my excuse. I was going so well posting every week or nearly every week then life catches you up. Love to hear from some of my regular readers what have you been doing over the last few months.

The above post reminded me so much of the loves in my life gardens, nature, flowers and people. As I look very carefully at the nature that I am trying to create this reminds me so much of people I meet.

As you are drawing then painting a flower or bamboo or whatever it may be so many changes can take place in that specimen all in about half an hour. Once you cut the specimen from its roots it changes, just when you thought you had drawn how you thought that plant was meant to be you look at it again and so much has changed, the perspective you have looked from, the way it draws itself to the light. It droops when there is not enough water given to it. Sometimes we can try to draw nature without giving it the nourishment it needs to continue to thrive.

In my early stages I just wanted to draw and I didn't consider the environment the plant or specimen needed to be in. Needless to say it died before my very eyes and in a very small space of time.

This is not unlike us as people is it? We all need nourishment constantly. When we are cut from our spiritual roots how much do we survive. How much nourishment is needed for us to live our lives to the fullest.  So we are not unlike plants and the nutrition and nourishment that they need to blossom and gives us their best.

Would love to hear some comments from others about the similarities we have with plants.

love Elly

Comments

[Rob]

Hello Elly -- I enjoy looking at the blogs of other life coaches. I particularly enjoyed your comments about drawing of the plants. I live in the USA state of Vermont which is located in the far northeastern part of the US. My partner and I have an organically-grown vegetable garden which typically grows enough food for present consumption and with canning and freezing of produce will keep us fed throughout the long and snowy Vermont winter. Sometimes there can be too much in the way of steady nourishment as I noted in August. My 18 tomato plants had been thriving all summer. They were tall, strong, and beautiful. Then came about 3 weeks of monsoon-like rains. In about 10 days those lovely plants became yellowed and poor. Last year my partner and I canned 128 quarts of tomatoes (not to mention about 300 more quarts of assorted other vegetables). This year, we will be lucky to can 20 quarts. Sometimes too much is, well, too much. But steady nourishment in the proper amounts with a balance of rain, nutrients and sunshine make for strong, productive plants.

I am enjoying your blog. Please take a look at mine at http://robkeith.wordpress.com/ and leave some comments for me as well. Best wishes to you in the southern hemisphere.

Rob

[Elly]

Thank you so much for your post. You certainly have a busy life with all your gardens etc. Your tomato plants remind me that we need to be in self-care at all times. Self care is about nuturing, and balancing out all the parts of our lives. Maybe this year because you had so many tomatoes last year it was just being evened up. I send you a fine balance of rain, nutrition and sunshine into your life.

[kamas]

I enjoy looking at the blogs of other life coaches. I particularly enjoyed your comments about drawing of the plants. I live in the USA state of Vermont which is located in the far northeastern part of the US.

[kamas]

As I look very carefully at the nature that I am trying to create this reminds me so much of people I meet.