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Here I am bloggin my thoughts, ideas, journals and ofcourse my inevitable ramblings. Greatly appreciate you'll stopping by and add comments if you will. See ya!
Tackle the weeds
Posted 27th February 2008 at 11:21 AM by Anandchitra
Now the weather is turning slightly warmer and we are looking into warmer weather and shall I say HOT and HOTTER within the next few months .. Maybe no one needs me to remind all of the hot weather that we have in summer. When the weather is cooler and temperatures are so reasonable no one wants to think ahead to all the Heat and Sweat down the line.
However as a gardener I need to start thinking about WEEDS. If there is one thing I would rather avoid thinking it is Weeds and if there is one task I would avoid doing it is ofcourse Weeds. Really if I do not plan so far ahead my whole vegetable garden and flowers beds and rose garden will overcome, overthrown and overfull with WEEDS. Not to say that i have big facny gardens or anything. I just have small patched here and there but trust me these take so much of my time to maintain and keep UP with.
Now all the beds look so innocent. There is NO sight of our ENEMY (the WEED) and all the plants seems to mind their business which is hibernation. So a real idyllic situation. Would'nt you wish it was ALWAYS this easy and one never has to deal with WEEDS. So the preparation starts now to get ready to combat with the onslaught of weeds.
Before my reader jumps to the conclusion this yet another boring blog from AC and all about an innocent rapidly overgrowing plant that nature provides in abundance, NO, this is not all about gardening and weeds.
It has dawned on me how so much of prep work also needs to be done in LIFE and day to day life so as to WEED out all the unwanted. Maybe too much thinking about weeds led me to this but here I am thinking why so much prep and thought is not going into my daily life. SOme people are so much like weeds , give them a little space and they over power you with any of their predominant emotion. If they are angry with their world they would not hesitate to dump it on our head or if they love to gossip about others they would wait to see us so as to get started on their favorite topic. I can see how much we need to plan if that is not what we want to cloud our lives with. So much like planning to deweed. Maybe Mother Nature in her kindness is teaching me something afterall.
However as a gardener I need to start thinking about WEEDS. If there is one thing I would rather avoid thinking it is Weeds and if there is one task I would avoid doing it is ofcourse Weeds. Really if I do not plan so far ahead my whole vegetable garden and flowers beds and rose garden will overcome, overthrown and overfull with WEEDS. Not to say that i have big facny gardens or anything. I just have small patched here and there but trust me these take so much of my time to maintain and keep UP with.
Now all the beds look so innocent. There is NO sight of our ENEMY (the WEED) and all the plants seems to mind their business which is hibernation. So a real idyllic situation. Would'nt you wish it was ALWAYS this easy and one never has to deal with WEEDS. So the preparation starts now to get ready to combat with the onslaught of weeds.
Before my reader jumps to the conclusion this yet another boring blog from AC and all about an innocent rapidly overgrowing plant that nature provides in abundance, NO, this is not all about gardening and weeds.
It has dawned on me how so much of prep work also needs to be done in LIFE and day to day life so as to WEED out all the unwanted. Maybe too much thinking about weeds led me to this but here I am thinking why so much prep and thought is not going into my daily life. SOme people are so much like weeds , give them a little space and they over power you with any of their predominant emotion. If they are angry with their world they would not hesitate to dump it on our head or if they love to gossip about others they would wait to see us so as to get started on their favorite topic. I can see how much we need to plan if that is not what we want to cloud our lives with. So much like planning to deweed. Maybe Mother Nature in her kindness is teaching me something afterall.
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 |  in garden you can deweed but in life very tough to weed them out, we only learn to live with them or in the end mentally live without them |
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| |  You said it right dear Sundari.. |
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| |  Dear AC, What to do?? Soem like these weeds have to be tackled. Better than the funny , poisonous elemnets that we encounter in our daily life.Right?? |
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| |  AC, This is something which we all really want to do. Deweed the unwanted; but as per my experience so far, it is not getting that much easy. They really and simply and very easily poke their long and short noses into other's issues. It is really hard to digest them. At times not just neighbours and friends but even relatives become weeds and as they are related it is really very difficult to deweed them. |
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| |  Dear Anandchitra Comparing life weeds with the garden weeds super ya. Yes we can pluck and through the weeds that r grown in the garden but in life sometimes it is difficult. |
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| |  hello chitra i thought ah yes tackle the weeds my section ...gardening /nature small or big patch the garden to green thumb.... a farmer from brazil once got rid(?) of a variety of rice by smothering with another grain ....many times and at last it was pronounced...GONE..!! now they are regretting it cause it ws the best strain to withstand pests ..!! guess people are also that way sometimes they are like pests and when our best efforts to avoid them or get rid of them succeed who knows we may need their service one day... so let the weeds be.. on the side path and not on the vegetable or flower path...?????? i dont know.!!! sathya |
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| |  AC, So gardening has made you philosophical.. weeding is something that has left its impact from my childhood..when we were in my granny's for vacation, weeding was a special task. the labourers used to come with a special tool (called kalai vetti in tamil..). I feel weeds are sometimes needed.. not all weeds are parasites and harmful..agreed, they disturb the harmony, the beauty of the other plants...they are needed to appreciate the beauty of the plants... Sometimes, we misjudge a good plant as weed also and then regret weeding it out... |
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| | Janani your what to do line brought back memories about the movie apporva ragam where the couple get stuck inside a car because its raining outside and then they remark What to do?? hmmm?? maybe my brain should focus on the blog and not meander to movies???bear with me my friend. |
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| | Relatives are the most difficult to handle and deweed than friends dearest Rajmi..atleast friends you can just speak your mind and they are for the most part tolerant about us..but relatives..I am thinking i will just focus on garden weeds.. atleast I have the feeling of control (sometimes maybe ?!) |
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| | Hello my Chick..you and your friend chicks are sho cuteeee.. and thanks for popping in here my friend.. I have given up on lifes weeds and for now assumed i have to life with it.. so do you garden among all your other craft talents.. |
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| | The weeds can be on the sidepath as people walking on them will keep them in control when they do creep into our veg and flowers beds they do need to be pulled and yanked and thrown away my friend Sathya In life there are such weeds here and there It is for us to know where they are for focussing on them we should not forget to look at the beauty and glory of the garden and then wonder Life is mostly a garden with a few thorns and weeds so as to appreciate the greater beauty that Nature is. |
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| | Weeds are needed to appreciate the beauty of plants more.. oh my dearest friend in one line you have conveyed more than i could in my rambling blog and you win my admiration for that.. That again i feel is true in Life too.. with something less to compare how would we ever learn to appreciate the valuable gem that we have.. |
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| | AC, At the sight of weeds, I transform into Arnold Schwarzenegger and terminator, with the big Weeder in hand!!! Now if only I could do that for the "other" type of weeds..... I'll Be Back!! |
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| | I'll be back sounds so ominous.. I can never imagine you as the terminator my dearest friend.. having seen your photo I know even if you think you are the terminator your lovely smiling eyes and sweet face will speak otherwise.. and maybe the weeds know this too !! :) |
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| | AC, Thanks for the compliments, you made my day. Anyway, coming to the garden weeds, i can never take them out, since all that Jay always gifts me a Dandelion flower every time without fail from the yard, leaving all the roses and lillies etc..... |
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| | Those dandelion flowers are really cute..hence cute flowers to a cute person..right now the weeds are held back and I'm in control..In no time at all these weeds grow and take over right under my very nose hmm?! |
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| |  My dear most Chithu sis.. Did I read "this yet another boring blog from AC" ??? Ah.... the most rated blogger talking down to earth adds on to the quality of IL !! Many a time I had wondered about your blogging skills and also about the reader's response that your skill attracts !! Hats off.. Let me try to at least figure out and follow the tactics of "capturing feedbacks" !! ha ha ha.. (Jokes apart). Coming to our WEEDING out policy .. Very true and an apt blog for the day. At times we do feel that many remain to be jobless that they can "invest" time on gossiping about others. Not even a single fiber of my nerve can stand any kind of gossip. What I do to refrain myself from such events is that, I simply move away from the place (I have experienced the same with my granny, sorry to point out, but I can never agree that its "age" that makes people fall for gossip.) Likewise, there are many such incidences where we need to WEED out certain aspects to maintain our life's sway. It includes thinking on a wrong track, unwanted gossip, intentional plotting of traps for those who are not dear to us, awakening the "animal nature" in us for petty issues, running behind materialistic desires, false ego, jealousy nature so and so forth goes the list never ending. Again everything zero in on "self-realization" which is stressed in Bagawad Gita through "Yoga of self, action and knowledge". I always wonder "how people can act so cheap?" and how their "conscience" allow them to do so. At last my mind sooths me telling "they do not possess their conscience"; for in the act of their "benevolent praise for others" (?? "gossip") they "Lose their self". Hope I have justified my post :) Regards with Love RamyaVaradharajan (NB: Chithu sis. "Secret behind blogging (??) ) :):):) |
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| | So young in age you are dear most Ramya So priceless and ageless your words speak of treasured wisdom in its depths So gifted I am I get to read and relish What you wrote for me today.. These words of yours Will I ever treasure as precious or more than gold and silver Holding them closer to my heart and soul forever and ever. |
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| | Dear most Chithu sis, Thank you very much for showering your words of praise on me, though am trying to perfect (or should I say, alter) my "imperfectness". Ah ha.. Where is the answer to the "open secret" posed Chithu sis?? ha ha ha ha.. Regards with Love RamyaVaradharajan |
| Updated 1st March 2008 at 02:17 AM by RamyaVaradharajan (for the best choice of words) |
| |  Dear Ac, Just went thru your blog. Great work indeed. In referring to the weeds, i was thinking of weeds within ourselves, our jealousy, hatred etc (Kama,krodha,moha,matsara,madha) needs to be deweeded first. Only when LOVE as a plant is grown in the garden called as mind, there will be no weeds. |
| Updated 6th March 2008 at 05:37 AM by Lalitha Shivaguru |
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