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Lessons From a Package of Seeds (When Life Feels Scattered)

Spaces with Morgan Harper Nichols

Morgan Harper Nichols

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🗓️ 4 March 2023

⏱️ 5 minutes

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0:00.0

Well, hello there, it's Morgan here. And today I want to start a series that I've been holding back for some time.

0:06.6

I've been waiting and waiting for the right moment. And for whatever reason, this particular Saturday, March 4th, felt like the right day.

0:14.1

This is a series of 30 days of the poetry of seemingly ordinary things. And it comes from a place of while waiting for the big

0:23.4

things in life to fall in place, there are at times little things in life or seemingly little

0:30.1

things that carry within them big lessons. I see a lot of these things in daily life,

0:36.7

and I just want to share them with you here.

0:39.1

So this is the first one.

0:41.4

I'm going to read it.

0:42.8

The Poetry of Seemingly Ordinary Things.

0:45.6

The first one is Packages of Seeds.

0:49.4

Day 1 of 30.

0:52.2

The poetry of seemingly ordinary things. Number one, packages of seeds.

1:00.0

Perhaps one particularly fascinating thing about packages of seeds. It's not just a fact that they each contain individual seeds, all packaged according to their collective commonalities,

1:14.9

that might bloom in their own way one day, but also how despite their differences,

1:22.3

there is a possibility that these different packages can be carefully opened in an unhurried way and can be

1:31.7

planted to grow together. And yet, what could be even more fascinating are the ways in which

1:40.0

these seeds, not yet bloomed, are often perceived as a beginning of what they could be,

1:48.0

and nothing more. But when we look closer at the seeds of flowers in particular, we are able

1:57.0

to imagine that there is a possibility that someday they might become Cosmos or Marigold

2:06.4

or some mix of flowers waiting to be revealed. And all of this imagining of how seeds can grow

2:14.8

can happen long before they actually grow.

2:18.3

When they are sitting on the kitchen counter, next to a key chain filled with keys,

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