Maybe it's all timing

I keep trying to quit this project and I can't understand why it isn't working. What's it been? 2, 3 years?

A new chapter is starting in this project. Maybe. It feels right. And now I'm starting to develop a deep appreciation of right timing in the long-term evolution of things.

I tried to find a consultant to help with my project, but no matter which way I turned, everything felt so linear and transactional -- not even a little in line with the spirit of complex emergent systems. I don't want to pay someone tens of thousands of dollars to come in, lay down a templatized companion planting system and then disappear. It doesn't work for me. So I gave up. Again.

And then along comes Dale, the partner of a friend of mine. I've watched their landscape take shape over the past 6 month, though it's been in progress for much longer, and recognized in its development a quality of design the carries in it the most gracious and patient attention to detail in the most holistic sense. All factors of the environment are considered, natural, person-made, social, political, geographic, among many others. It's beautiful not only in it emergent aesthetic sophistication, but in the quality of love that goes in to its design. Dale, it turns out, is considering a professional business in landscape and is interested in a pilot project with us as clients. And because my friend and I share a certain self-reliant and opinionated nature, I have a fair degree of comfort that Dale knows how to work with strong women and not in spite of them, which makes him a very appealing partner in design.
We're going to get together soon to talk about the possibilities. Spot and I are hopeful and excited.