I wish! You are always welcome. What kind of gardening have you done? Has it helped to ground you? (Oh...no pun intended.) It really makes me happy when I'm out there puttering around. What do you like to garden/plant/eat? How much area do you have, and in which part of the country? Some folks are still knee deep in snow, whereas out in my neck of the woods, it's in the high 70s and time to plant! It makes a big difference.
My new T is speaking of and referencing Maslow a lot, so me being me, tonight I looked up Maslow on the internet. Fascinating stuff! He apparently dwells on happiness rather than the problematic. How pleasant is that??! I like being happy. I strive to be happy. MD didn't like that. Her rule is: MD, happy; Honey, NEVER EVER happy and/or satisfied. She was frustrated because it never really turned out that way, for her unhappiness is deep inside her and protected by absolute denial that her life is, or ever has been, anything but perfection, so she took it out on me when even she could recognize that her life's delights were all fictitious fantasy. I need to avoid her toxicity now, not to be mean to her, but to preserve my own mental health and happiness. These are my own observations and gleaned from my quick study of Maslow's principles, but I have a feeling my new T would agree with me. Strongly.
Wow...the doorbell just rang; mailman left two boxes, and in them? Box 1: My Cha-Cha Chives and Box 2: My Hot Lips Salvia!!! Both have now been watered, placed into small saucers, basking under the grow lights! They came from Burpee's in PA!! All the way across the country they've traveled! They do look a bit bedraggled, but given a chance, I'm sure they'll grow like crazy. The chives have reached their forever home under the lights (I'm planning an herb and lettuce garden there on one shelf of it), but the Hot Lips salvia will, once thoroughly revived, have a place of honor under my kitchen window in the hummingbird garden I'm growing. The Rose-of-Sharon tree, which spontaneously grew outside there last summer and is perfectly shaped already, is a favorite of the hummingbirds, and the leaves on it have just sprouted out. Now I am sure it overwintered properly. <whew!> You can see exactly what it looks like on Google images. And of course the Hot Lips salvia. I just couldn't resist such a name, and they are so pretty, too (both red and white together). I should have pollinators galore this year to pollinate my garden and entertain me at the same time as I do my dishes.
My garden is such a positive motivator! I awoke this morning with a terrible sore throat, and promised myself to rest and take it easy, but looking out the window just now and receiving my new plants, I'm inspired to get out there and do just a little bit, just to keep moving in the right direction. If I get too tired, I've promised myself to take an additional rest...but I have some "light duty" things to do, and I'm sure I'll not only be ok doing them, but feel better about the whole thing once done. Maybe finish scrubbing out the bird bath and refilling it with fresh water so my birds can come here for a drink of water. Right now they light there on the upside down saucer blocking the birds from drinking the dilute bleach in the bird bath, and they shoot me a dirty look of thirst and confusion. And it's been that way for two days now. So yeah, it's first up on the list of things to do. The birds are guilt-tripping me!! I'd better get at it...
Honeybera