Mental "Weeding"

Today I did yard work in the afternoon - I cut the grass and weeded the gardens around the house. It occurred to me that the writing I have done about the past is a kind of "mental weeding". As "anniversaries" come around I spend time thinking about where we were last year, writing about it, and somehow gaining some more healing. I don't know if it's all about letting the feelings go, or if it's simultaneously a way to relive and reprocess them. I'm happy to have reached the point where the blog began. I feel like I've been in a new phase of my life for some time now - I think that's another reason why I'm loosing the impetus to write about the past

As I complete the gardening and put things away I can see the spot where the sunflowers stood. This summer I haven't allowed anything else to take root there, but today I decide that I'll spread Echinacea seeds there in the Fall.