# Planting. Harvesting

By [jer979](https://paragraph.com/@jer979-2) · 2025-10-20

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There’s a time to plant. A time to reap.

In between is neither.

I can’t make the flower bloom by pulling back the petals.

Nor can I assess the quality of the harvest by how the field looks in the middle of the season.

Yes, there may be some tending to do, but mostly, I must be patient, recognizing that I did the work and now I await the results.

I find this part, the in-between, the patience; this is the hardest of all parts because it is the non-doing. The non-action.

That’s when the fear creeps up.

The self-doubt.

The “what if I was wrong? or made a mistake?”

The “what if they laugh at me?”

All of that has no place to go. It just lingers and I have no choice but to sit with it.

Perhaps I can rely on th same non-action that prevents me from rushing out to harvest the crop prematurely prevents me from allowing those voices

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