Garden of Serendipity
My life has been so serendipitous lately. The past two weeks have been lessons in fruition and managing the blooming after a hard winter. Opportunities have been sprouting all around me, some planned pots and some wild blessings.
My planned seedlings are seeing sprouts now; the interviews I passed with flying colors now have brought me a specific start date, which brought me compassionate communications from my new leadership team as I needed to adjust that date due to additional opportunities.
A new friend has shared cuttings of their growth with me as well; we connected in a leader's development workshop he helped build and run, and my exuberant, desperate soaking up of knowledge into my foundations and sharing what I notice and produce brought us closer. He saw my need for growth and meets me in stride, giving my grasping vines somewhere to reach to. Another workshop for student organizers, taking place in New York, housing and dining fully covered and flight potentially as well. I applied. We called and compared perspectives, and he curiously inquired about my garden's set up as I learned his projects, what he's growing, that he's looking to see if I would wish to join his seed bank of ideas and organizers.
It's all I've been reaching for, to teach others how to tend to themselves. I have found my life's work here, by knowing my own compass and trusting that when I say yes to opportunities it points me towards, the path will be worth it. Maybe not clear, but it could be if I keep at it. I have been searching for an endeavor to sink my roots deep into the soil of, a space to facilitate growth in a network of others also craving the sun, the water, the nutrients we know to be necessary.
I reach to others out of desperation, out of the atom deep need for fulfillment and light and love and growth. My garden is full of projects and seedlings, and while it is more than I am used to… I do not know if I have felt this excited to tend to something in a very long time. I am not sure the last time I felt so overwhelmingly Alive.