Oh, my!
The area nurseries are opening today. Even though it is still too early to plant much of what I want, I’m going to stop by just to see flowers and colors and sniff the air.
I’ve been checking my yard and the lilacs are loaded with blooms this year, yippie! I planted an azalea last fall and it has bright pink blooms ready to open. The hydrangeas all have leaf buds and the day lilies and poppies are pushing up green leaves. The peonies are pushing up red shoots. All this means I didn’t kill everything! The plants survived my care! Hurrah!
I’ve got to plant some daffodils for next year, just a couple so that I can see their bright little faces in the morning. They look so cheerful.
Happy spring.
Friday, April 17, 2009
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Thursday, April 2, 2009
Climbing Everest
Journeys can be once around the block, a couple of times around the world or any length in between. Journeys on which you climb your own Everest have the most meaning for on these journeys you leave your boot prints in the snow. Unlike the pristine field of snow ahead of you, you’ve left a mark. Sometimes others can follow, but most frequently, your boot prints are there for you alone. The boot prints will rarely be in a straight line up the mountain. It doesn’t matter. Keep climbing.
Climbing your own Everest is worth the effort even if you don’t make the summit. For one thing, even if you only get a little bit higher the view is better. For another, the air is rarified. Rarified can mean air so thin it makes you lightheaded, but also elevated, exalted, noble, grand in purpose, and to convert into something of higher worth. How cool is that? In your whole life, you may not reach the summit and it doesn’t matter. The journey’s the thing. One step at a time. Keep climbing.
Journeys such as writing a book can be made without leaving home or you can travel around the world to do it. There are journeys through rehab or the journey as you raise a child. Whatever your journey, whatever your Everest, it doesn’t matter. Pack light. Keep climbing.
Climbing your own Everest is worth the effort even if you don’t make the summit. For one thing, even if you only get a little bit higher the view is better. For another, the air is rarified. Rarified can mean air so thin it makes you lightheaded, but also elevated, exalted, noble, grand in purpose, and to convert into something of higher worth. How cool is that? In your whole life, you may not reach the summit and it doesn’t matter. The journey’s the thing. One step at a time. Keep climbing.
Journeys such as writing a book can be made without leaving home or you can travel around the world to do it. There are journeys through rehab or the journey as you raise a child. Whatever your journey, whatever your Everest, it doesn’t matter. Pack light. Keep climbing.
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