Fertilizer

(Second post in a series of three, exploring the guiding words of water, fertilizer and sun for 2009)

Fertilizer

Spreading manure is one of the few activities that takes place on the fields during the winter in our area.  When the conditions are right the tractors will drive out right on top of the snow leaving bands of nutrients waiting for the spring thaw.

I’m intrigued at exploring how in my own practice, wrong attitudes miss many opportunities that are rich for cultivation. Especially in social media, I’m often faced with learning not to pre-judge others and make limiting choices of where the value lies based on cursory reviews of profiles and short comments.

I sense a scary thought watching the increase in popularity of these tools:  here comes everybody!   That’s way more than I can hope to control or engage.  But what I can do is create a field that is rich in nutrients that will foster healthy relationships.

So on this pass of the tractor, I’ll drop these thoughts from Jung on the importance of the dung heap:

“The matter out of which it (the philosopher’s stone) is created can be of little value, so the alchmists said it could be found everywhere, quite ordinary, even dispicable, a stone that is ejectus in viam, thrown out into the street.  It is the stone, rejected by the builders, that became the cornerstone. They even find it in the sterquilinium, the dung heap…” (Nietzsche’s Zarathustra, pg. 445)

What have you been dismissing lately, where is your litter?  (I’ve had to take a relook at my dashboard: wow,  have I been missing the opportunities in the comments you all have left…)