Fruit – Harvest – It’s Coming Because You Prepared

Warriors Are Built for Joy – We know what it’s all about. Those who shape their lives for healthy purpose accept the triumph of the harvest.

DREAMS – do you dream of fruit, perfectly ripe? Do you love to cook and entertain? Are you attracted by movies with long family dinner scenes, outdoors beneath an arbor? Is touring wine country a popular fantasy of yours? You are a person who is propelled forward by imagining smiles on the faces of others as the work of community and family harmony is celebrated and enjoyed. This vision can keep us going through bitter hardships.

Challenge – Keeping these visions alive during the planting phase is hard, because the growth cycle is long and can be boring and uneventful. We warriors push ourselves, our muscles weary. That’s why planting occurs in stages, so all your psychic eggs aren’t resting in the same basket. Learn to enjoy all the seasons, without hungering for a single season. This is a good time to contrast group versus individual gratifications and ask ourselves, “What’s that about?”

Danger – If we become obsessed with gratification until it takes more and more to gratify us. The next thing you know you are locked in an addiction and no longer part of a growth cycle. We need to look forward to the abstemious times, sitting around the fire telling stories, without needing “success” to be experienced as an endless party. Luckily sleep and dreams are the best model of fruitful dormancy. We require those periods and we need to look forward to their relief and imaginative nourishment.

Opportunity – every family’s celebration of the success and nourishment cycle is different. Consult your Training Journal. Are there leftover behaviors that no longer serve you? What fresh, exciting new ideas might you add? Is everyone in the family/community being well-served or are there grumpy holdouts? It’s fruitful to listen to the grumpy holdouts occasionally. How might they do things differently? If all they want is to harsh everyone else’s buzz, maybe they should no longer expect an automatic invitation to the feast.

#Haiku: Remaindered

Bone, sinew
Marrow – vine
Skin – leaf
Brain – fruit;
When will we be
Harvested?