Ponderings…Tending to the garden

I came across an insightful quote the other day, by a man named Mario Quintana, and it went like this: “The secret is not to chase butterflies, it's to take care of the garden so that they come to you.” Sometimes, the right words reach you at precisely the right moment, and those words have fluttered about in my mind ever since. We pour a lot of our time and energy into trying to influence the world around us, so that we may create environments and enjoy the things our hearts crave. Often in our floundering, we cause more chaos than we mean to, and we chase away the very thing we are attempting to attract. We can't often control what comes into our gardens, sometimes it can be a butter