Freehold

Sitting in the hut at the end of a the garden on a dismal wet grey day getting my mind around another language - freehold. Terms such as concurrent and reversionary lease, occupation leaseholder and enfranchisement - all new, in a language that dates back into the depths of legal history. I try to stay present, not panic. Do the form with keen attention, stay sunken, weak, soft, breathe. Mind calms. I look at the garden. Yesterday in the warm autumn sunshine I yanked out the mildewed courgette plants - their bounty was generous this summer, and the runner beans, also beneficent in their produce. The next dry day I plan to bring loads of compost onto the soil, to prepare it for its winter rest before the spring planting. Freehold - a very T'ai-Chi term for ownership. In T'ai-Chi there is no ownership, letting go, lightly touching, no hold. Yielding always, yielding to the situation, to the land, to another. Be free. More attention to the freehold documents and information which is piling up on my desk. Stay light, long term. This will move on, this language learning and seeing where others grab greedily at others homes. Yielding to the freehold. Stay sunk.