“There are years that ask questions and years that answer,” wrote Zora Neale Hurston. We know the difference. In some years, a path opens and we can see where it leads. In others, we make thoughtful choices, give our best and still wonder what is taking shape. Those years can feel like standing beside a garden in early spring, looking at bare earth and remembering what we planted.
Yet the gardener does not need to see a flower to care for the soil. We, too, can keep tending what matters be it a friendship, a hope, a skill or a dream that has not found its form. Some days our part is wonderfully ordinary. We show up. We listen. We begin again. Beneath what we can see, roots are finding their way.
An answering year does not always arrive with a sudden revelation. One day, we notice that a choice comes more easily, that we have grown steadier or that something we once hoped for has quietly begun to bloom. Rainer Maria Rilke offered this gentle possibility, “And perhaps gradually, without noticing it, you will live your way into the answer some distant day.” Until the answers come, may we keep tending what matters, trusting that even now, a life we cannot yet see is beginning to bloom.
Have a beautiful day and a magnificent week!!!
