My partner has had a few lame interviews and some sending her resume into "the black hole" just like me. No response, no ripples. As her weekend marched on and the first part of her work week, she held her own at Friends House who has given her a layoff notice and considers where else it might trim the budget. Too bad that The Unholy Trinity is still cooking in its' cauldron of evil doings. Too bad that they are not on the schedule of cuts as that could put a tourniquet on some of the blood loss.
However, I noticed that the nursery seemed to have more than its share of cranky people who were just not happy with any plant that I might suggest. I began to feel that it might be a virus going around or just a batch of people, women most of all, who would never be happy with our service or stock. Funny how people approach gardening in the same way they seem to approach their lives. Some are almost panicked to find plants to take home, some saunter and smile or whistle a tune that comes to me somewhere watering or plucking dead blossoms. Some are angry or suffering within themselves and it spills over and sometimes I am in the way.
The spilling over seemed to be a pre-cursor to this night's full moon. It seems like a bad moon, dragging ill will in emails and interactions with others. People on the Internet highway and the highway itself were impatient, unkind and just plain vindictive with one another. A painful moon that simply means we are tugged in a direction that we might otherwise avoid if we could just stop, have some compassion, feel our own sadness or joy and not smash our fellow travellers as we journey forth.
Nothing has been solved for me this week and I experienced my own "bad moon on the rise" and tried to stop my anger. I got paid today, which isn't much and yet, I am fortunate to work an honest day and celebrate another day of life. Tomorrow is a day off and we are going to enjoy it regardless of the moon's influence on ourselves, our lives and our loved ones.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BmEGm-mraE&feature=player_embedded
