Seeds, pods of promise, tidings of hope ~
In Russia there still smolders the  radioactive melted grave that was Chernobyl. From the island of Japan where Hiroshima and Nagasaki are  finally beginning to grow anew as the soldiers who fought and survived  the war that went atomic are now, in old age,passing from this life, from same small island nation Japan radioactive waters flood into the pacific. jelly fish are turning to goo. Ice bergs break and drop into the seas and small island nation states and cultures are  drowning under rising sea levels. Inland super storms, extreme floods and fires and droughts ravage the landscapes worldwide and another year comes to a close while some plead and scream and negotiate and lobby for environmental concerns while at the same time others drill and frack and more ''progress'' increases the ever onward stomping footprint of mankind. Around me I see the plant growth halted by the cold dark of winter encroaching. I know spring follows winter. Rachel Carson long ago wrote of the ''Silent Spring'' and I fear with earbuds and automated noise of electronic devices and person bubbles we will not notice nature's increasing, terrifying lowered life-force volume. I still believe in spring. I still am uplifted to see every weed that pushes through the cracks in the concrete.


This great morain, drug down by glaciers across the midwestern plains from an ice age so long ago, this ancient rock that sits steady and strong that still has life sprouting upon it's surface helps me believe the Universe is pro-life, life has a will to survive and in this December I see that spring, renewal, growth, survival is ever still a force upon this planet in spite of all the damages humankind continues to thrust upon the earth.

This great morain, drug down by glaciers across the midwestern plains from an ice age so long ago, this ancient rock that sits steady and strong that still has life sprouting upon it's surface helps me believe the Universe is pro-life, life has a will to survive and in this December I see that spring, renewal, growth, survival is ever still a force upon this planet in spite of all the damages humankind continues to thrust upon the earth.

 And so to life force, l' chaim, even as the winter  comes on hard and dark and cold and life seems to be in ebb, the potential is there, all around, and next spring and summer's lavish array of flowers and coming flourish of fruit are contained in the  husk and bud, acorn and seed

 ''The fact I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowledge and it becomes another's , smiles at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises.'' - Leo Buscaglia

In gardens, beauty is a by-product.  The main business is sex and death.  ~Sam Llewelyn

''To see things in the seed, that is genius.'' Lao Tzu

''On the motionless branches of some trees, autumn berries hung like clusters of coral beads. as in  those fabled orchards where the fruits were jewels...'' Charles Dickens

''Talk unbelief and you will have unbelief; but talk faith and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest.'' Ellen G. White

Who, of men, can tell
That flowers would bloom, or that green fruit would swell
To melting pulp, that fish would have bright mail,
The earth its dower of river, wood, and vale,
The meadows runnels, runnels pebble-stones,
The seed its harvest, or the lute its tones,
Tones ravishment, or ravishment its sweet,
If human souls did never kiss and greet ?

John Keats

''With every deed you are sowing a seed, though the harvest you may not see.'' Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Thought is the blossom,
language the bud,
action the fruit behind.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Inside that tiny seed, lives the roots, branches, bark, trunk, leaves, twigs and apple fruit of that apple tree. You can’t see, feel, hear, taste or smell any of that yet; nevertheless, it is all inside that seed. The moment the seed is in your hand— all of that is in your hand, too, from the root to the bark to the fruit! All you have to do is to push the seed into the soil. And what makes anyone plant any apple seed? It is the belief that in the seed, there is the tree. So, believe. To have a seed, is to have everything.”  C.Joybell C.

“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” Steve Maraboli

The fruit of Silence is Prayer
The fruit of Prayer is Faith
The fruit of Faith is Love
The fruit of Love is Service
The fruit of Service is Peace

― Mother Teresa Quotes

 “Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check the advance of conformity on all its many fronts.” Michael Pollan

 “Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.” Yoko Ono

 “Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas. Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness. I take it for granted that to create a tree I condemn a seed to rot. If the first act of resistance comes too late it is doomed to defeat. But it is, nevertheless, the awakening of resistance. Life may grow from it as from a seed.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

''Men love to wonder and that is the seed of science.'' Ralph Waldo Emerson