Never Bored, Never Done: A Lady’s Guide to the Ongoing Project

I’ve come to realize something about myself: I am always in the middle of something. It doesn’t matter if it’s my house, my garden, or some random corner of my life — I’m forever thinking, “I’ll be done right after I finish this…” Spoiler alert: I never am.

It’s not that I’m unsatisfied with what I have. I just seem to love the doing part. The planning, the fixing, the rearranging, the dreaming — I think I simply like having something to look forward to. The sense that there’s always one more idea waiting just around the corner.

The garden is no exception. I had cucumbers dying on the vine, but that didn’t stop me from starting a greenhouse project with high hopes of propagating and starting new seedlings (none of which are finished, by the way). My mom and I are also planning to move a gardenia and build a path from the garden to the greenhouse. There’s grass to plant, weeds to pull, and, honestly, there always will be.

And I kind of love that.

Because when you think about it, the joy isn’t really in being done. It’s in watching things unfold — slowly, imperfectly, beautifully. Every unfinished project is a reminder that life, just like the garden, keeps growing and changing.

So no, I’m not done. I may never be done. But I’m never bored either — and that feels just right.

“…when you think about it, the joy isn’t really in being done. It’s in watching things unfold — slowly, imperfectly, beautifully. Every unfinished project is a reminder that life, just like the garden, keeps growing and changing.”