Is fall the natural time for reaping what we sow?
All around me today the farmers are harvesting. I see them intent on their work, their children riding along because these are gentlemen farmers with day jobs as accountants and such. Still, the work of the harvest must be done and the splendor of this fall day is the perfect time. It reminds me that it's time for me to harvest the emotions of my life, something we should all do every so often, and send them up to the Universe for consumption.
I think I'm finally ready to let go of the emotions surrounding sending my son off to college. Every thought and emotion that has swirled up in me for the past few months seems to be clearing out now. I can go a day without texting him (almost). I cleaned his room, his bathroom and the spaces he claimed in the guest room and basement. I took apart the shrines made for him for his graduation party...the photo montage and the wall of jerseys. It's time to take all of that love and worry and fear and anxiety and clear it out. Oh, the love continues. But it's the letting go kind of love that I have with my daughters. It's just the next level. And it's time.
Today I sat home nursing a flu-like thing that has been on me for a week. At first I ignored it and thought it would go away. But I think my body is catching up with my heart and simply needs to let it all go. Like the fall harvest, everything in its season. I sowed seeds for years that have resulted in good things. Now it's time to serve it up and find out what my next season's crops should be. The empty nest kind of crops should be very interesting and hopefully very fruitful.
So as always I want to know if women handle all of this differently than men. Well, of course, we do. It's not the men making the graduation shrines, packing the kids up for college with hangars and carpeting and extra underwear and quarters. We definitely feel raw emotions in the process that men seem to handle differently. But I think both men and women need to take the time for the harvest, recognize harvest season when it arrives and take the time to let it happen. Maybe women can lead the way to identifying and supporting the process because of that natural intuitive awareness of things. I think that is Womenzwerk.
What do you think...should women lead by example and regularly acknowledge that it's harvest time?
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We need strong leaders. I'm thankful for the women in my life who have provided guidance and direction when I didn't know where I should go or what to do next. I like the concept of our investments being a harvest. We have to seed many fields and be comfortable with the risk that we don't know how things will turn out, what will be successful. One of life's many tough questions is whether we should plant the same seeds as before or take a risk and try something unknown. But, without risks, investment, and bravery to attempt new endeavors we would never be able to discover new, rewarding, and worthwhile things.
ReplyDeleteHey Nancy, my two older daughters moved up to Minnesota over the last six months or so--one to college and one just to live and be on her own--and while I'm not sure that's harvest time, the whole "to everything there is a season" certainly resonates. It's a turning, and with the loss comes the promise of something new and probably better. Might not seem that way now (especially in a house that's suddenly very quiet), but it's something I gotta believe.
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