For this photo I was walking around the town wall in Conwy in North Wales and noseying down into someone's garden, into a very perfect little autumn kingdom, ladder against fruit tree, lush profusion of plants. And look at those Victoria Plums (click on photo to enlarge), yum. This is harvest time.
Time to turn in perhaps to one's own world, be that the world of work, of business or of home. Nature is changing on the outside and there's a richness to take inside. What is there for you to harvest this year? What kinds of crops? What has done well? We can plant seeds and plants, raise and care for them, prune, feed, whatever, but we can't predict exactly how well they will do or how external factors will play in.
Perhaps autumn can be a time to take stock and appreciate what we have harvested, what wealth we have created. It may be financial wealth, social capital, the fruits of labouring to create a good family life or a better workplace. The harvest may be for you to share with others.
Perhaps you have felt in some way that it has been a poor harvest. That happens some years of course.When it does there is still the harvest of experience and learning how you will do things differently in the future. On a bigger scale experience and learning can be the best harvests.
There seems to be such a tendency in life to be hurtling on with the next project and the next, feeling excited perhaps, or stressed and scurrying. Perhaps it is time to take a break, look into the 'garden' you have created, eat some of the 'plums' and to take stock.What wealth are you harvesting this year?
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