Life is a funny thing

When I was a kid I wanted to grow up and now that I am grown up, I've come to appreciate my days as a carefree kid.  Life is a funny thing and it has a funny way of working out and not working out.  I continue to be super optimistic most days but some days are harder than others.  The other day I was looking at my plants and so many of them had new growth on them one even flowered and I finally found the secret to growing chickens and hens.  I can't even begin to tell you how many of those plants I have killed over the last five years, but I just kept trying and the rewarding feeling I got when I finally succeeded is something I can't even explain.  That day as I was looking at my plants and was studying them, seeing their growth made me realize that growing plants is a lot like growing in life.  I begun to compare them, plants start out as a seed and grow through the soil into baby plants and then into adult plants. We as humans grow from an egg in our mothers and then grow from a baby to an adult.  The better care we take of our plants the better they grow and bloom, just like us the better care we receive as we grow the better we grow and bloom into the people that we are.  The secret to happiness in life is the same secret to growing healthy plants.  This year I don't have any new years resolutions, just a new year to restart my growth.  There are so many things that I have wanted to do and do wholeheartedly that in the past I've started but never continued or stuck with it so to speak.  I've started this blog several times over the last 12 years and today I wipe the slate clean and start fresh, start the growth process in writing and enjoying my creative side through such endeavors as this.  I've let the life I'm living keep me from doing things that I love and enjoy and this year that is all going to change as I will be making my blog, podcast (set to start Feb. 2019, stay tuned) and my other various creative endeavors be a priority in my life.  I encourage everyone to make the things they really love a priority in their life, because life is a funny thing and we should all enjoy everything about this crazy life.

Top Photo:  A Cactus that my husband bought from Walmart of all places and this was the first year it bloomed circa 2015. Does this every summer when we set it outside. Bottom Photo: Aquarium Terrarium my husband designed making beautiful flowers happen. (Sorry couldn't find a picture of my chickens and hens, maybe this summer I can capture them growing.)