Trust

Kathryn, Excellent. I never thought of comparing human trust to nature. What a unique prospective. Thanks for sharing.

Well said! The comparison between our gardens and souls is apt and well made. I enjoyed reading this.

Magi

Mary, this was something I just rewrote, based on a piece I had written for my former blog. Glad you liked it. I like it, too.

Writing at its best. You've described Spring fully and refreshing.

Magi, thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. This was something I rewrote earlier tonight, based on a piece I'd written for my former blog, two years ago.

HM, thanks for your words. I'd written this originally two years ago, for my former blog, and rewrote it tonight. I'd felt so inspired when writing it, two years ago, and then again, tonight.

So very true, Kathryn. When nourishing the soul, like nourishing our plants, trust can grow again. A wonderful piece!

Thank you, Laurie. I'm glad you enjoyed it. !!!

Emil, those are very wise words. If only more people would listen with those two ears...

Sometimes we need to trust others not to act when everything else says, "Go ahead." We all have limited perceptions of the world, and it is important to trust people who can see where we cannot see.

While the warm weather coaxed those tulips to blossom in December, they should have waited for when it would truly warm up. They couldn't see that, but a gardner could. Why can't plants obey thier caretakers?

Why can't we all heed -- ie trust -- those who can see more than we can?

Steve, thank you for your informed comment. Nature has a way of taking over when it truly knows best. This was an exploration of trusting our innate senses, which is what nature does - spring comes at different times, depending on the climate. But plants grow only when it is warm. People should heed their own best sense and grow emotionally only when it is warm to them, ignoring the cold posions of other's souls. That is where trust lies, in warmth, my friend.

Kathryn, of all the great articles of yours I've read, I believe this is my favorite. I'm not a gardener, I trust easily, so I have no idea why this hit me as strongly as it did. I'm going to read a few more times and figure that out. Thanks.

kathryn, i resonated to this. the second half of the article just dripped with wise words. thank you.

Exceptional offering and stunning in imagery and intent, Kathryn. I am an avid potting gardener as well (76 LARGE pots all about and more coming and also 67 rose bushes, fruit trees, and herbs and tomatoes) and much of my spirituality has found new depths from meditations on growing and blooming process metaphors of non-verbal living truths. I tend to openly trust, but as a sensitive artist, I do get my emotions bumped around from time to time, especially when I am opening my heart and truths up deeply to someone I don't yet know as well as more established friends. This puts me in a weakened heart posture which expands if I don't restore balance. I often restore my balance through gardening and especially through my painting and yoga and walks. I have found that I must first tend to my needs and health and then offer my best to others generously. If I maintain my own needs welll, I will then trust myself in almost every situation and also have the confidence to exit any that take on unhealthy postures, without major loss to my self-esteem or health.

In order to give love, I must have it within me and for myself in order to be able to gift it. Trust is the same. By keeping daily mindfulness about my emotional truth and strength, I keep my own sense of worth and my self-accountability maintained. It is only such a healthy gifting that I would truly want to offer to anyone I care for. The chasms of gaping need are painful for flower or human or animal or anything. We are here to help one another as generously and selflessly as we can, but if the giving becomes the gift mainly to others, one can become depleted.I am a giver by nature, and I am proud of realized friendships of abundant love, faith and trust . I am a proud Mama of a very healthy garden and three bouncing balls of catfluff...they need me to provide everything for them and I do it well and the catkids reward me with their games and antiics and trusting affection beyond measure,t he plants and flowers with their Spirit messages and grogeous hues. Love and trust are two sided conversations of giving and receiving ...the most beautiful ones of all....especially in combination. I am so enjoying getting to know you better, Kathryn...hug to you, beautiful soul.

The comparison between flowers and our souls is astounding. Trust is very important indeed and once broken, it is hard to be restored. Thanks for this beautiful piece.

Kathryn, this is very well said. It takes a strong soul to have the courage to fall again, but if trust can be refound, it makes the risk well worth it.

Great parallels.

Kathryn., The comparison is indeed a unique one. I liked the way you wove the story together, nature to human, human to nature. Restoring trust is probably the hardest part of a close relationship for tiny cracks are still there and must be mended with great bonding of stronger root character. Many are not up to the challenge. Those that do, deserve special praise. We see this also on the national level when nations lose trust, woe be us all. This article is outwardly simple but complex within a high moral balance of the nature of humans. Thank you Kathryn, once again you gently punch-up the minds at Gather. Well worth emailing to friends and foes on the Internet.

Kathryn, I am funny about trust. I am a little hesitant at times. I am afraid to get too close to people, it's scary for me. I love people but I get disappointed quickly. I love your article it is really written well. I think I am a bit of a hermit. I paint, play guitar, write poetry and spend alot time alone. The poet site is good to interact with people. I think I'm a bit too sensitive. Your a warmer person I think then me. I worry a lot about hurting others and I don't want to be hurt. I am sort of still on the side line. I do love your articles. You are a talented writer. It's fun to see the variety you have. Thanks and take care.

Sandy, interesting comment. It was originally written for my former blog, two years ago. I mainly wrote about differrent kinds of essence, or, whatever happened to strike my fancy. I did like this one a great deal too, and still do, I rewrote it a bit tonight for publication here. Thanks for enjoying it.

Jessie, it makes me happy that this resonated with you. It was written two years ago, now, nearly three, for my former blog. I rewrote it a bit tonight.

Laura, I, too, feel like I'm just beginning to get to know you, through your ppoetry. Your beautiful comment describing your catkids and your gardens, your soul children of trust, was very touching. i'm so gald this could be of hep to you, as it were, in getting to know me. Thaks for appreciating it.

Irene, thank you for enjoying this piece, this one that was originally written for my former blog, two years ago. I rewrote it tonight for Gather.

Hannah, I'm glad you ejnjoyed this piece, that was written for my former blog, two years ago. I rewrote it tonight for Gather. it is one of my favorite, too.

Christopher, that was a very beautiful comment you left at my site, thank you. It does take a lot to mend those cracks, and, often it may not happen with the person who helped caused them to crack. But your comment remains wise. thank you for enjoying this.

Ruby, I feel honored that you let me see some of your quiet side, the side you keep to yourself, in your comment about Trust and trust. It's all good. Here, we can be ourselves. I'm happy you enjoyed this article and that it made you happy.

Trusting is beautiful
As a newborn does at the bossom of its mother
Plants no exception
They too have innate trust in mother nature
Does it always pay?
Now, that is entirely another matter.

Oh, Dolphi, what a wonderful comment. "Does it always pay?" Oooh, GOOD question. !!!

Kathryn, a very thoughtful and thought provoking piece. Like others, I trust to much, and sometimes suffer the consequences. But onward I go, to trust again! Thanks for this meditation.

Faith, yes, it is important to go on after trust is broken. I think nature does, though not certain.

Michael, if politicians were more like flowers, I would expect new growth every spring.

Trustworthy trust. Trustworthiness is not possible to imitate.

I love this:

Blooming is a special secret. So is the human soul. So is trust.

I also never thought of trust as being universal. Thanks for opening my eyes!

Maureen, your comment was really blessed. This was written a couple of years ago about some pain in my life, which has since passed, but evokes the important feelings for the reader. Have a blessed Blooming day, Maureen !!!

Susan, truer words have ne'er been spoken. "Trustworthiness cannot be imitated. Thanks for that insight" !!!

Aileen, I used to delight in watering my plants in the middle of the night, watching them open, when it was quiet, safe to do so. I always used to watch the trees this time of year, waiting for that moment when the buds erupted into a leaf. I always missed it. It was always at night. When it was safe. Thanks for your comment !!!

Superb writing, Kathryn, a horticultural ontological marriage. I love the connection and necessity to trust in both instances. Trust is like faith with sight, unfortunately, it gets damaged when it is not repayed in kind... nevertheless, I believe that it is best to trust the best, especially in people, rather than the reverse. Your essay made me think of these things, not a little triumph on a lazy Sunday!

Ed, that is a beautiful comment, full of insight. Thank you for your kind words !!!

Trust definitely can be beautiful when you least expect it. It is one of the nicer experiences in life. Wonderful piece.

Trust is freely offered, graciously, generously, yet it has to be earned and this can take a long time. What takes so long to earn can be so easily damaged and broken. This is a good essay on trust and on gardening.

RKL

April is the cruelest month, ...memory and desire...dear gardner you problem was insufficient mulch.

Kathryn, I loved the many interpretations of this piece and the form that teeters between poetry and prose.

A very different comparison Kathryn, but nicely written. Sometimes these plants trust, and begin to grow only to be struck down in their weakest times. In just the same way we often trust in others, only to be struck down because they are not worthy of our trust. I'm glad that is not true of all people!! I've always tended to be a very trusting person of others, but unfortunately have learned in life that not all people are worthy of that trust.

Ann, thank you for sharing your thoughts about trust. I'm glad you enjoyed the article, very much so. Your words mean a lot to me.

Robert, it is true that trust has to be earned and can be so easily damaged, and, so easily broken, tragically so, sometimes. Thank you for enjoying the article.

Hal, that was a humorous slant I didn't expect, thank you. You made me smile.

Cynthia, the 'form that teeters between poetry and prose' is a form I like very much, and is a form I can write. Thank you for your kind words.

dawn, it is true that not all people are worthy of our trust; plants, sometimes, too, trust the warmth that fosters their growth, only to be frost-bitten when the air turns chilly; so, too, our trust in love sometimes is not returned, or is broken. I'm glad you enjoyed the article; thank you for your lovely comment.

Heather, thank you for your kind words. !!!

I find your poem to be very inspiring. In my case, the person I lost trust with was myself when I realized I wasn't living up to the standards I place on others to follow. The experience was/is quite jarring and I have felt quite lost because of it. But one of the hobbies my wife and I have recently taken up is gardening so your words definitely "struck a chord" with me. Thank you!

Wonderful piece Kathryn

Beautiful and thought-provoking Kathryn. I was all caught up in the seriousness of the issue of trust till i saw harold's comment about mulch. made me remember that so often trust is based on the best of fertilisers, horse-sh*t. ;)

Your beautiful words resonate well with me. Trust is a difficult issue for many of us to overcome:

Let rain heal the earth; let tears heal the parched crust of your soul.

James, may your gardens grow, as your trust grows. I'm sure both will grow to fruition. !!!

Thank you, Stephen. Your reading of my work was MUCH missed - I like to know that my work helps your day a little bit !!!!

Carolyn, interesting to note that such beautiful blossoms can grow out of such horsedoodle.

Bonnie, it is true what you say. Trust is difficult, if only we could trust our innate senses like the earth trusts hers.

Ah Kathryn, a lovely, lovely prose poem! Indeed, trust is the essence that makes the soul shine. Without it, we know an indefinable bleakness, an abyss of sorts that takes so much away from our individuallity. At my age, I've learned to listen to that little voice that resides in us all. It never fails me. Wondetrful piece, my friend!

Sylvia, thank you for stopping by. I look forward to reading you !!!

Personally, I think we need some really, really deep cracks right now so that we will get away from the concept that "trust" is going to make things better. What makes things better is making things better. We can for example, buy into what is printed on our currency and sit back and watch our country go to hades in a handbasket. Trust is definitely over-rated right now.

George McNaughton, HI!!! Haven't met you before. Deep fissures erode the currency of the soul. Anyway, you have a GOOD point. Thanks for stopping by.

Deep wisdom here.....!

Let rain heal the earth; let tears heal the parched crust of your soul

Oh Kathryn...if tears could just heal everything! Very well-written, spiritual message here. And I love the garden metaphor.

Hey, I was just following around pink ladies, and I found this...

Very poignant... To think of freshly blooming crocuses blooming in the cool of early spring and the wide-eyed trust of a child is a huge imaginative leap.

Wonderful!

Thanks, Eric !!! Trust indeed is special, as is the bloom of a new growth !!!

Thank you, Donald. It was fun to write, and was written two years ago, from my old blog.

Bonnie, yes, if tears indeed could heal the earth or a soul...thanks !!!

You have written this work very well. I especially enjoyed your extended comparsion of trust with that of the plants and the nature around us. Superb.

Thank you very much, Bobby D.

Hi Katheryn
I believe nature has an easier job than people because trust is preprogramed in.
Humans get stuck on past hurts and imagined slights.
Wouldn't it be wonderful if we all could take in your inspiring message!!
Miriam