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the garden. Figuring this all out in the first place was a hard lesson in and of itself but then truly learning from my garden took even more understanding, an understanding that seemed subtle, fragile and fleeting like a morning fog or fire fly at dawn.

Learning from my garden didn't take 1 day or 1 week it took years and I only learned a little. Listening to the garden was also difficult because you only hear what you want to hear and learn what you want to learn. The garden doesn't mind if you learn anything at all because it is still a garden and beautiful in and of itself regardless of what is learned from it. The garden didn't make me learn it let me know there was something to learn from it, or more accurately, with it.

The garden is only a garden if you want it to be, and the lessons it teaches are merely a dream, but if you listen and work, the garden will teach in a natural medium of many bugs, a whole lot of foilage, lots of dirt, seemingly endless hours and constant pruning and weeding. Hard to believe in that you could find joy, empty minded excercise, and lessons about life. But that was just my experience, it could be something completely different for you or someone else. Gardens can also teach you how to get a tan on just your arms and legs.

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