E.F. GRACE ARTS
  • about
    • connect
    • news >
      • venues >
        • Arts Night Out: "The Sunny Choice"
        • Farmers' Market
    • about ef grace arts
    • about the artist
    • behind the scenes
    • archive >
      • blog branches >
        • the Visual Voice branch
        • Eve Continued branch
        • copper petal branch
        • Mama Said branch
  • the art gallery
    • art collections >
      • paintings and drawings >
        • the SUNNY CHOICE collection
        • the MIND THE TIDE collection
        • the PAINTED SKY collection
        • the EVE collection
        • the EMPOWERMENT collection
        • the ZONE e collection
        • the Vitality collection
        • the Passion Flower collection
      • digital visions >
        • THE ILLUSTRATED LIFE
        • DIGITAL PORTRAITS
        • DIGITAL GRAPHICS
      • blended collections >
        • veins
        • the Forgotten Romance collection
        • the Moments of Wonder collection
        • the Shimmer and Shine collection
        • the Life In Contrast collection
        • the Harvest Moon collection
        • the Fun and Fierce collection
        • the Pour Me a Melody collection
        • the Crickets Song collection
    • art shop
    • originals for sale
  • blog: good reads
    • embrace wellness >
      • Pursuing Wellness
      • Root Bound
    • commentary
    • essays
    • poetry >
      • Moodswings poetry >
        • a kiss on the breeze
        • vibrant tides
        • hidden visions
        • the bitterness of rain
  • Custom Services
    • Featured Custom Projects
    • 2019 Review

...EVE CONTINUED...

Root-Bound

6/8/2017

0 Comments

 
 
Contrary to the afternoon forecast, it was lovely out-- cool and bright and perfect for blending into the green.

I scurried out back to sink my hands into some soil and prepare my plant babies for the upcoming intensities of summer.

To my dismay, one of my favorite and most prolific plants was struggling. I couldn't understand it. I had taken care of her through years of seasons, she had spawned several healthy offspring, and yet, she was now in distress.

In a controlled panic, I zealously pruned away the suffocating dead growth. It was scary and emotional and I feared for her survival. She looked so small and empty without the unnecessary pouf.

How did she get this way?

What was going on beneath the surface?

Do we ask that enough?

Upon further examination, I discovered that she was severely root-bound---so much so that she had engulfed and tried to assimilate a plastic grate in her pot while trying to escape...no--not escape---expand.
​
She was more alive than I had thought--

she just needed
room to grow.


What a breathless relief it was to lovingly remove her from her confines, loosen her tensed tendrils, and let her flow into her new space.

Now she is ready for the warm, wild summer and all its nourishing dynamics...

​...and she will be all right.
​

Picture
root-bound
Picture
room to grow
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

    Picture
    Celebrating all
    that 
    she is, loves, and learns
    ​
    Picture
    ​Welcome to the fruits of my mind, rich with flavor and heavy with thought...bold and fresh, and sometimes bruised... Like life, they can be gentle or intense, tough or tender, full of pain or full of grace.

    This is life through the eyes of a modern-day Eve-- An Eve who has seen and felt the ages, learned to live and dream in a world where we've already tasted the fruit...
    It's not always roses, but that's life...
    for bitter or sweet.
    Picture

    ...aftertaste...

    I remember when life was simple and pure, when we had but ask and it be given. It is now a different day, a different time, a different place...

    But I was allowed to take with me, the fruit I had bought, to remind me of who I was, and the Garden I left. And this is who I have become...

    ... a modern-day Eve, gifted with grace, resilience, and strength...but still I struggle in the toxic now, bred on the taste of ripened fruit...for bitter or for sweet...

    Do you feel me?


    Picture
    ...A mile in my shoes...

    Archives

    June 2017
    August 2016
    July 2016
    June 2016
    May 2016
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    November 2015
    October 2015
    April 2015
    January 2015
    July 2014
    January 2014

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.
  • about
    • connect
    • news >
      • venues >
        • Arts Night Out: "The Sunny Choice"
        • Farmers' Market
    • about ef grace arts
    • about the artist
    • behind the scenes
    • archive >
      • blog branches >
        • the Visual Voice branch
        • Eve Continued branch
        • copper petal branch
        • Mama Said branch
  • the art gallery
    • art collections >
      • paintings and drawings >
        • the SUNNY CHOICE collection
        • the MIND THE TIDE collection
        • the PAINTED SKY collection
        • the EVE collection
        • the EMPOWERMENT collection
        • the ZONE e collection
        • the Vitality collection
        • the Passion Flower collection
      • digital visions >
        • THE ILLUSTRATED LIFE
        • DIGITAL PORTRAITS
        • DIGITAL GRAPHICS
      • blended collections >
        • veins
        • the Forgotten Romance collection
        • the Moments of Wonder collection
        • the Shimmer and Shine collection
        • the Life In Contrast collection
        • the Harvest Moon collection
        • the Fun and Fierce collection
        • the Pour Me a Melody collection
        • the Crickets Song collection
    • art shop
    • originals for sale
  • blog: good reads
    • embrace wellness >
      • Pursuing Wellness
      • Root Bound
    • commentary
    • essays
    • poetry >
      • Moodswings poetry >
        • a kiss on the breeze
        • vibrant tides
        • hidden visions
        • the bitterness of rain
  • Custom Services
    • Featured Custom Projects
    • 2019 Review