within your element

"You're finally within your element."

You've finally found your space and it is within this space that your existence matters, it is within this space that what you do makes a difference. Within these first weeks of spring I have cleaned away many winters' debris, within this space I have created a new place for plants to take hold, within this space I have planted hundreds of carrot seeds, a basket full of potatoes, hundreds upon hundreds of onions and over a thousand metacoment red corn seeds and all i can wonder is that within this much abundance why are there still people who are hungry?

and then i think: no. stop. you don't want to go down that road. just this once. don't go there.
so, okay, i'll go back to that other space, back to that blissed-out delirium i've learned to call work.

Work is now standing in a greenhouse filling 1,152 slots with soil, planting one metacoment red corn seed in each, covering the seeds with soil and then covering the trays of soil and seeds with well water. Work is now unpacking 1 box of product and pricing it, when the next person comes in they'll stock it, there's no need for me to do it all myself. Work is now squatting for 2 hours in the sun to place 615 onion bulbs within the soil, then come back and do it again, then again, until the entire 32 lb. bag of stuttgarter yellow onion sets have been planted, humming to yourself and them the entire time. Work is now about taking your time to do it right the first time, and if it turns out you didn't do it right, that's ok, let me show you again. Work is now talking for 40 minutes about nothing and everything at all, after you've planted all those onions. Work is now about giving yourself time and if it doesn't get finished all in one day, that's ok cuz there's always tomorrow!