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I was gardening today, more specifically, I was pruning the lavender which has grown exponentially in size over the past year due to the record-breaking 42” of rain we got here in the Ojai Valley. While doing so I remembered another lavender in another garden 18 years ago. We were in Guerneville, CA at the time, living on the rim of a canyon with a third of an acre of growth and redwoods below us. The garden had been largely untended to, and Jon and I were working at cleaning it up. He started to cut away at the tangled lavender and rose geranium when I heard a voice say, “Not too much!”

Instructions from the fae who made that area their home.

Today while helping our overgrown lavender release some of its weight I made sure to check in first before beginning my work.

We are always in collaboration with all around us both seen and unseen. The more I place my attention on this collaboration and the acknowledgment of it the more I find myself in the natural flow, able to access a kind of magic that is simple and yet powerful and that allows pieces that often feel disparate or even nonexistent to make themselves known and fall into place.

I had been thinking about the rose geranium we had up North and asked Jon to look for it a few weeks back as he headed off to a number of different garden stores. There was none to be found and the employees he spoke with did not even know what it was.

A couple of days later I headed to our weekly Sunday Farmers’ Market and bought a bunch of flowers from Night Heron Farms, as I do on the regular. I noticed a familiar scent and there nestled in the locally grown flowers and scented greens was some rose geranium. I asked Alena, one of the duo who grows these remarkable flowers, if she knew where I could get some. She suggested I just pull it out of the bunch and plant it right in the ground. This Sunday there was a bunch of it there at their booth waiting for me.

Jon put them in the ground today (caged for now to protect them from our exuberant pack of doggies) right next to our faerie house and in between these rose quartz that we’ve had with us since we lived in Chicago. The magic, ever present in our yard.
#operatefromjoy