“July has rewritten climate history”, though you probably don’t need the World Meteorological Organization to tell you that July 2019 was the hottest month on record.
I spent most of the month of July, dripping sweat as I worked in our gardens here in the Berkshires.
Sweat Equity per Merriam Webster and dictionary.com is the “time and effort that people contribute to a project, the unreimbursed labor that results in the increased value of property or that is invested to establish or expand an enterprise.”
While I’ve contributed countless hours of Sweat Equity (and I admit most of them have been pulling weeds, it hasn’t been about the increased value of the property, it has been about the transformation, about creating something, about change, about gratitude for the opportunity to make a difference, even if it’s small.
Think of yourself as the property or the enterprise. What weeds do you want to pull? What do you want to plant?
June 2019
Sweat Equity is something we can do for ourselves everyday and reap the fruits of our labor.
July 2019
Where do you want to create change or beauty or just a WOW?
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, July 2019
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