It’s a gardener saying, “so deep in the weeds you didn’t see how far you traveled”

I could see how that might apply to hikers too…

With gardening you get focused, you have to recognize what’s a weed and what is not. 

>From the stem and roots<.  Pulling from the top just rips the tenders off, and bites if there’s thorns.

You pulled the roots with a firm tension, being too forceful disrupts the entire growing bed. It’s a slow and steady pull, you feel the deep roots giving way as they relinquish their grip on the soil. You can feel it through gloves once you tune in and get aware of it.

(Sensitivity is a skill and you can train in it!)

After a while you already know what root system is below the surface, and whether or not you need to pull out a tool to extract the issue. Pry, Spade, Shovel  Grubbing hoe. Maddock. 

The point is:  It’s your garden.  You decide what you are growing and remove what doesn’t work in the landscape you are building.

Wait no… that wasn’t the point.  It was a good point, but not where I was going.

Deep in the weeds. Focus and Flow. okay…

I get the same way with fence rows.  Just in the clearing out >>>zone<<<  in the flow and in the focus.

It’s hard to explain that moment.  I just slip in once I find proficiency in tool use and rhythm. After that are Pinning down objectives and deadlines. Structure builds accountability.  [p.s. Add the boundaries to protect your creativity, space, time, and focus, as though you mattered.  As though what you were building… the project mattered.

And also Who you are building… matters.

I have found this state exercising, practicing instruments, marching with large units, buffing the decks in bootcamp, (strangely Zen for me) (found a similar zen driving motorcycle and zero turn’s) yes driving is a kind of zen space for me.  Driving games even. Drawing, coloring, inking, reading, … call it my happy space…  the busy focus vibe.    

Maybe your life has been endarkened for a while, maybe you have to reach way back in your memories to find that moment of joy and happy and contentment.  Maybe you can look at children for a bit and remember how amazing and beautiful it is… 

It goes from habit to habitat. 

You don’t really see it until you stand up and stretch.  Pull your head out of the weeds.

Look at the work you have already done, how much you have already built.  Give yourself some KUDOs!!  You did that for you, look at what you are building.!!    

My work since 2020.