Easter was supposed to be spent again this year in the wonderful spring of Provence.
Like so many others, our Easter plans also fell apart due to the spread of the coronavirus. Lufthansa, our credit company in terms of flights, offered free of charge the possibility to postpone the date of the flights until the end of December. This was a good thing in this otherwise unfortunate situation. We rescheduled the flights for everyone, but each of our Easter guests found a suitable time to try the trip to Provence again.
I've been so grateful that I figured out to start cutting our olive trees already on a ski vacation, even though I hadn't planned to do it at the time! Huh, now that the borders are closed, the cutting would have been completely unfinished if we had waited until this Easter! Of course, something was left undone and the cutting was certainly very amateurish, but whatever, I did my best and at least the biggest clumps were trimmed.
Sometimes - against common sense - my husband and I here paint dream pictures of what it would have been like to live in quarantine in our French home. Endless meditative gardening, larger, easy-to-renovate trees, the southern sun, wooding places with unprecedented precision and observing the progress of early spring would certainly have appealed - so there wouldn't have been a shortage of things to do there either.
Luckily it's spring! The sun cheers up and warms up even here in the North <3 Our home in Finland needs attention too, after all we've always just packed our bags for every vacation and ignored that rucksack for years! Now I spend quality time with it <3, I take care and caress, my tree and I plan refreshing changes - which I have time for from home school and work :D
Here's another quote from the wonderful and wise book The Little Prince,
Antoine Saint-Exupéry:
"People where you live, the little prince said, grow five thousand roses in one garden... Yet they don't find what they're looking for... And yet what they're looking for could be found in a single rose.”
"People, where you live, said the little prince, grow five thousand roses in one garden... And yet they do not find what they seek... And yet what they seek might be found in one rose." (free translation by me)
So, now, as always, all the treasures are around us, if we only want to see them. Focusing your gaze close, with thought and mind, brings them into your arms <3 (The treasure you are looking for is not in quantities, not elsewhere, not in the future, but here. All beauty is within your reach wherever you are, dear friend :*)
Be well and look close. Everything in time, now we are at this point, at these treasures.
With warm and sunny thoughts, let's take care of each other!
Katarina