passion -revisited

Hello to all!

Let's return to a post I wrote not so long ago. PASSION.

I asked what was YOUR definition of passion? Husband, maybe? Children? Of course. Gardening? Sewing? Something else? Whatever you can't live without, that is one of your passions, even if it is collecting stamps. I am not being rude about that. I have two sisters who were rabid about collecting stamps and one of them still is, although she complains she has very little time now and bitterly regrets the lack of it. As a child, I can remember being told to shut up and sit on the floor while this particular sister soaked and tweezed and stuck these stupid little pieces of paper into an album. Then the other sister developed a liking for photography and that was basically the end of that, as I was dragged like a doll from pillar to post, and set up in the most uncomfortable poses. Photography is NOT, shall we say, a passion of mine now.

Anyway, back to passion. If you are passionate about gardening, what exactly is the REAL part of gardening you love? Gardening, as a whole, is just too vague a term to use when you are writing, or searching for a niche you can fit into. For instance, I love creating things with words - books, articles, anything that is going to be read by anyone. But I create words items privately too, and these may never see the light of day. I have stories and bits and pieces around here on paper, which, every now and then, get pulled out from their boxes, looked at, shuddered about and get jammed back in to join the pile of ONE DAY, WHEN....

So narrow down your passion. You may love growing the colourful lettuces available now, for instance. But exactly HOW do you get them so sweet/tangy and lovely to look at? Maybe you can write a whole ebook on that topic? It is a specialized part of gardening that you may devote whole months to perfecting, and, although others have written on it, YOUR take is unique, so why not write about it? Don't forget, you do not have to write War And Peace again as length. You just have to write, with PASSION.