As Bob snowblows the driveway for the umpteenth time, I am bent over on my hands and knees vacuuming the carpet like a mad woman and trying to stay present in the moment, with no fear of the next hour nor anxiety of tomorrow. As the physicist Arthur Eddington put it, back in the 1920s, "Events do not happen; they are just there, and we come across them." The birth of Sequoia will occur - I have faith in nature, which incorporates God's plan and the workings of my own body - and I will be an active participant and observer of this occurrence. Until then, I will continue to participate in the miracle that is unfolding in front of us.
"There is here no measuring with time, no year matters, and ten years are nothing. Being... means, not reckoning and counting, but ripening like the tree which does not force its sap and stands confident in the storms of spring without the fear that after them may come no summer. It does come. But it comes only to the patient, who are there as though eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly still and wide. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful: patience is everything!"
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
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