Like the Garden Grows

Untitled, watercolour by Rami Schandall, June 2020.

My northern garden grows with such intensity in its short summer season, the transformation is so dramatic, winter seems like a story someone told long ago. I would like to learn from this nature, to be catalyzed in sunlight, and draw cool balm from the rain. To be awake and ready for necessary change, to grow with the ecology that I am never separate from. To be wisely attuned to conditions of growth, to know in this full life, I am whole, and wholly in it.