Squashes

Today, as I do most days, I visited our local bio-dynamic farm at Plaw Hatch.

I absolutely love the place and people who run it and today as always at this time of year they had their trailer full of beautiful squashes. I just love the shapes and the colours.

It is a reminder, as summer passes into autumn, that nature teaches us many things and the changing seasons and the pattern of life that goes with that is there to show us that things are born, they grow, they blossom and flourish, then they fade and eventually die.

Autumn is the phase where the once flourishing plant, flower, tree…starts to wither and to fade.

All things are temporary, so enjoy every moment and make all those amazing experiences that we can all make each and every moment. Don’t stay stuck in your thoughts and worries, just enjoy and buy some squashes to make some lovely autumn soup.

Leave worrying behind

No amount of caution, safety, protection, medication, worry, regulations, testing, hiding or precautions will change what will be. We can’t keep allowing our mind’s fears to make us want to run away from life.

That doesn’t mean we have to be stupidly reckless, well, unless you want to choose that for your own journey. After all, our life is our choice and we’re here just once in this current carnation.

If we stay present and away from our mind and its self-created psychological fears of ‘what might happen’, then there is little need for anything other that just enjoying life. Living is a risk, that’s what makes it amazing.

One day it ends for us all no matter what we do. Accept it, live always now and leave worrying behind.