Harvest Time—Closing of Life’s Cycles

At harvest time, my mind inevitably turns to 'cycles.' Life is full of cycles, and harvest is the closing of one of them. The harvest cycle begins with an intention, the intention to grow a crop, and it ends with the actual harvest. In between there was soil preparation, seeding, watering, weeding, etc. Seeing the cycle through to completion took work and a lot of patience and simply 'allowing.' [...]