The
good thing about the internet is the people you meet along the way. More
particularly, the people you would not normally meet and once you have met
them, they marvelously expand your perspectives on life and living. I am
not talking just about the online friends who I've met through blogging or
other social networks. Those friendships would take many posts to explore and
explain.
Today I just wanted to mention one person, Alys Fowler, whose videos
have filled my life with all sorts of joy and imaginings about how living a life
with a garden could be.
(Sorry, if this video posting is a copyright fauxpas, I can't find another possibility.)
The greatest
gardeners I have known have been my paternal grandfather, my sister, my friends
Maria, Sonja, Tine and Andrea. Even though I have rubbed shoulders with numerous
master gardeners, I do not have a green thumb at all. Actually, I am a couch
potato gardener and will most likely remain so.
Yet,
they taught me many lessons about gardening, which can be used well in life.
Lessons about patience, planning, beauty, hard work, modesty, humility, artful endeavor,
and a feeling an underlying tenderness about all of their plants. To Alys and my
gardening family and friends, thank you so very much.
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