Planting and harvesting

When you’ve known someone long enough, you start to see glimpses of their harvest.
Their habits, practices, attitudes, tendencies — these become the fields that feed them.

Over time, they begin to shape the whole landscape.

What has generosity given them?
What has resentment given them?
What has exercise given them?

Nutrition, mindfulness, jealousy, creativity, forgiveness, patience, intolerance …

Each one an input.

It can be easy, at times, to see how this gathers in the lives of others.

But we’re tending the same fields in our own lives.
It happens so slowly, we forget we’re the ones planting.