05/12/2025
The garden is you.
Most of us spend our years running through fields with torn nets, lungs burning, desperate to catch what flutters just out of reach i.e. love, success, peace, meaning. We curse the butterflies for being elusive, never noticing the weeds choking our own soil, the broken fence, the dry earth beneath our feet.
Mending the garden is quiet, unglamorous work. It is facing the parts of yourself you’ve neglected, such as the fear you drown in noise, the resentment you water daily, the dreams you abandoned because someone once laughed. It is learning to sit still when everything in you wants to chase or run away. It is choosing discipline over distraction, truth over comfort.
And something strange happens when you finally kneel in your own dirt and tend to what’s yours. The frantic need softens. The hunger turns into space. You stop begging the world to give you what you lack because, slowly, you are no longer lacking.
That’s when they come.
Not because you captured them, but because you became the kind of place where beauty feels safe to land.
The butterflies were never the point.
The garden was.
When the garden is whole, everything else finds its way and so do you.