Do you have a place that you walk or drive by every day but have never explored? Most of us have these places. We say that we will get to it one day...but it's hard to make these adventures a priority. There is a spot I have driven by almost every day on my way home from the office for the past eighteen months that I have never visited...that is, until today.
This evening when David picked me up from work, he suggested that we check out Asheville's edible garden. To be completely honest, I was hungry, craving a run, and had to pee - definitely not in the mood to explore. But there are two key things I have learned through this (29th) practice:
ONE: The moments when you are the least excited are usually the best moments to practice. It doesn't matter if you are tired, hungry, cranky, stressed out - sometimes these are the BEST times to stretch yourself and grow.
TWO: Support helps a lot. David will ask me: "Have you gotten in your exploration today?" and this helps hold me accountable...and usually recruit a partner in crime.
We knew that the garden was somewhere along the drive home from my office, so we set out to find it.
Tucked into the middle of downtown Asheville, in the midst of thick waves of honeysuckle, is the George Washington Carver Edible Park. The park was built out of a trash pile in 1997 and now boasts over 40 varieties of fruit and nut trees.
Chestnut, pecan, and apple trees. Blueberry and blackberry bushes. Pears, pawpaws, and plums. A beautiful urban oasis and you would never know it existed unless you stopped to look.
What places have you been meaning to check out? Where can you go exploring today?
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