Dig in

I keep having this vision of pulling up short grass with my hands. And the feeling is to create something valuable out of nothing.

I may think that I have nothing, and it often feels that way. But I actually have a god damn sod farm. The value is only fingernail deep, but look at the immensity and vastness.

How do sod farmers create their value?

They roll it up. They collect it. They organize it in a way for other people to use.

But it's so much? Where do they start? I'm literally googling it right now....

So they have a machine that drives, in a straight line, across a plain of grass. The machine digs up the roots of the sod at a certain depth, rolls of the sod, and a man or woman organizes the rolls onto a pallet. Plenty of grass is left on both sides. The machine can only handle 3-foot strips of grass. But it moves. Constantly. Effectively. The workers organize value that the farmers left behind. The workers make grass a commercially available product.

Could I consider the sod farm my life, and each section of grass that the machine rolls up, my day? Each pallet my month? The workers put so much time and attention into each roll, yet they have a system.

Maybe having nothing it a blessing in disguise. What is this nothing? I want to dig in, and investigate it.