Life Isn’t About Reaping the Harvest… It is About Planting the Seeds

Dear Reader:

I was so excited yesterday morning when I went to sadly clean out the moonflower seed planter that the squirrels had destroyed … pulling up every seed and green shoot plus knocking over the planter ( added salt in the wound) several weeks back.

I decided to clean it out and plant some wildflower seeds instead… but when I got there… two green leaves were smiling at me with one tendril reaching for the lattice to start climbing. One had survived! Happiness is…

Then to add more happiness… one of the mandevillas I bought turned out to be a trumpet climbing vine mandevilla so I cleaned off a trellis and moved it over to start climbing beside the fence! It will be so beautiful!

I switched my thoughts on planting the wildflowers there… just in case another miracle moonflower pops up… instead I am going the plant the wildflowers on the porch planter!

Once we realize that life is a journey …it becomes important to keep a ” running tab” on our daily steps … our planted seeds of everyday contributions that don’t have to measure achievements or accomplishments by others’ standards… but what the careful tending of our seeds are bringing to us now… peace, serenity and inner happiness.

So until tomorrow… We must all define our own success and then walk towards it every single day of our lives!

**I figure if I walk towards beauty… I can’t go wrong…**

Today is my favorite day -Winnie the Pooh

About Becky Dingle

I was born a Tarheel but ended up a Sandlapper. My grandparents were cotton farmers in Laurens, South Carolina and it was in my grandmother’s house that my love of storytelling began beside an old Franklin stove. When I graduated from Laurens High School, I attended Erskine College (Due West of what?) and would later get my Masters Degree in Education/Social Studies from Charleston Southern. I am presently an adjunct professor/clinical supervisor at CSU and have also taught at the College of Charleston. For 28 years I taught Social Studies through storytelling. My philosophy matched Rudyard Kipling’s quote: “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” Today I still spread this message through workshops and presentations throughout the state. The secret of success in teaching social studies is always in the story. I want to keep learning and being surprised by life…it is the greatest teacher. Like Kermit said, “When you’re green you grow, when you’re ripe you rot.”

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