Spring is coming

~ Sitting quietly, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself ~ Zen proverb - inaction


This is an apt description of my life for the last for the last few months. I have no plans I have just existed. But still things have moved on around me. Maybe this is not a bad way to be, to let life just unfold one day at a time. To stop struggling to influence the outcome and just go with the flow.

No matter how long the winter, spring is sure to follow. ~Proverb


Seasons follow each other, ebbing and flowing but time is a relative thing; when you’re young a sunny day can go on and on, when you’re old time flies by. This winter time for me has moved slowly, almost agonisingly slow, but it has still moved on.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome. ~ Anne Bradstreet 1655


Spring is a word for hope. But I am afraid to hope again. I want to keep my wishes small and my expectations few. I want to live without desire and then I won’t be disappointed when my desires are not realized. I want only simple peace for myself and to be free from worry about a future that is unknowable. If the future unfolds in my favour I will be pleasantly surprised, appreciative and grateful.