Flowers From My Garden

I rode my lovely bike down to my community garden plot again to do a bit of harveting. My sweet peas are finally in bloom. I've been waiting on them for a while. They're an heirloom variety and the smell is quite heavenly. American Sweet Pea is their name. My plot yielded today, a pint of strawberries, two stalks of asparagus, an artichoke, a tomato, some lovely flowers, and nastursium leaves that I love to use to decorate a plate with. They look like lily pads and look so cute as a liner on a plate. As I reveled in my joy, I kept thinking about something someone said to me: That anything worth having is never easy. I've had a difficult time with this statement because it's not how I live my life. I find a lot of worth in things that are right before my eyes and it's always been enough for me. I've never been very goal-oriented. Everything has been an organic experience. I do what comes naturally and what I need usually comes naturally as well. But I do see how many people struggle, daily, to obtain something, or get to where they want to be. I faulted myself for not being overly ambitious or competitive. All I ever wanted out of life is to be happy. And sometimes, happiness to me, is peeling apples for an apple pie, or digging in the dirt.