This is How you Plant.

I know maybe you have been waiting for some practical planting advice. Maybe you wanted steps and soil types.But what if planting isn’t just doing—What if it’s remembering?

Remembering how to be in relationship.With earth. With water. With light.With life itself.

So here is my planting advice:

Touch the soil, let it sift through your fingers

Bring it to your nose, breathe it in

The rich fecundity of it, the livingness of it.

Fill the planter, watching the soil like a dark uncharted river flow in

Take that seed, that tiny life force hidden

Marvel at it.

With hands that have the knowingness of ancient ritual

With heart holding prayer, gently push into darkness

Take the water, not tap water

Sky water, life giver

Say, ‘water you are wonder.’

Slowly add with gratitude

Place all this mystery

Under the morning warmth of sun

More often than not-- now shunned,

Yet still, it’s sunlight that calls forward life

Every day, hold your hands over the darkness

Hold it with Reverence

Maybe sing, a song about stars or spinning planets

Or how Earth is our mother.

This is how you plant.

xo Christina, always grounded in gratitude.