I Manifested A Magic Garden

with just a thought

My Aunt lived fairly close to my house in Long Island, New York. It was a 20-minute bike ride, a little over 3 miles one way. Back in the day, it was the norm for kids to go out to play for the entire day and come back for dinner. I grabbed my bicycle and rode to my Aunt’s house about once a week.

She had the most beautiful garden! It wasn’t really big, but it was intricate. There were a lot of big trees, naturalized bushes, and little paths intertwined in the ground that you really had to concentrate on to find and see where it led you. There was no rhyme or reason to her backyard. It was just natural and beautiful.

I remember talking to her one day, and I said, “Aunt Lucy, how do you have such a beautiful backyard, a beautiful garden like this?”

She said, “Donna, don’t ever pull anything in your garden, not even a weed.”

On some Sundays, I would drive in with my mom, and we would spend the afternoon there. My uncle would sneak whiskey sours to me when Mom wasn’t looking, just a small glass, but enough to know they were really yummy! After a while, when they were doing their adult talk, I would sneak into the backyard and explore.

My mind and imagination just went wild. I didn’t know what kind of plants they were, but all I remember was saying, “Someday I will have a backyard just like this.”

I’ve had many homes since my youth, and this one particular home that I’m in now, I’m super proud of the backyard. It’s not a big piece of property, only a quarter of an acre, but it’s naturalized. I have over a dozen big trees, hollies, and tall cedars the size of my two-story house. It looks like a snippet from a landscape in the world of Harry Potter. I took my Aunt’s advice and only pull some weeds once in a while, but for the most part, I just let nature take its course. It’s so funny because if you look at the neighbors to the left and right of me, and pretty much everybody else in my neighborhood, they all have manicured, boring properties.

I have tons of birds, tons of medicinal weeds, many types of butterflies, and bees. There are tree frogs, anoles, squirrels, and creepy-crawly things that I won’t touch, but it is beautiful and magical. If you look closely in the video, you’ll see many medicinal plants. How many can you spot?

I will be leaving this beautiful backyard in a year’s time to go to my forever home in the mountains. On 6 acres, there is magic and beauty beyond belief. I will write about it a year from now, but for now, I’m keeping it kind of quiet and slowly will unwrap that magic.

My Aunt passed away two years ago, and I would’ve loved to have sent her a picture of my beautiful garden that was inspired by her, but I know she’s with me now, every time I am in my garden. The point of this article is that no matter what you want in life, say the words strongly out loud and envision that it’s already yours, and it magically unfolds.

I have manifested many things in my lifetime, from the type of lifestyle that I live to the properties I own, and even the log cabin in the mountains that I dreamed of my entire life. It’s all at my fingertips.

I thought it,

I dreamed it,

I desired it,

I manifested it.

No matter what you want in life, if your desire is so strong, there is nothing that will hold that back, nothing.

With gratitude,

Donna 🌟