Guardian of What
by Michael Feeley
What are you a guardian of?
Not what you manage because you must. Not what you tend out of obligation or duty or someone else’s expectation. But what you protect and nurture and care for because you love to. Because you can. Because it matters to you in a way that is completely and entirely your own.
I am a guardian of a garden.
I plant and prune, water and feed. I watch for what is struggling and I help it along. I notice what is thriving and I make room for more of it. The garden does not ask me to do this. No one requires it of me. I do it because I love plants and because plants, like everything living, deserve to be cared for.
I am a guardian of these words.
Every day I write. Every day I publish. I think about what my readers need to hear, what they are hoping to find here, what might lift or clarify or confirm something they already feel but haven’t yet named. The Daily Blog is mine to tend. I take that seriously.
I am a guardian of a love that is thirty years old.
That does not happen by accident. A partnership of that length and depth is cultivated the way a garden is — with patience, attention, honesty, and the daily choice to show up again.
So I ask you: What are you a guardian of?
What do you protect, nourish, champion, defend?
What do you return to, again and again, not because the calendar demands it but because your heart does?
Be clear about this.
Knowing what you guard is vital and says ever so much about who you are.
Thanks – Michael (he, him)
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This matters too – Watch and Act with Care.
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