RE: now elderly wisdom (or any other kind)

Yes, I belive that.  Your mother had great wisdom and courage, no doubt...

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From: "Chris" <chris@widom-assoc.com>
Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
Date:  Fri, 24 Jan 2003 22:41:57 -0500

>I'm sure others have had this experience, but when my mother was dying
>of pancreatic cancer I remember how she planted bulbs and daylilies and
>other plants that she probably would never see in bloom.  What courage
>and hope for the future is in the act of planting!
>
>Fondly,
> Chris
>Long Island, NY
>Zone 7
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-gardenchat@hort.net [o*@hort.net] On
>Behalf Of Pamela J. Evans
>Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 8:05 AM
>To: gardenchat@hort.net
>Subject: Re: [CHAT] now elderly wisdom (or any other kind)
>
>Theresa, as long as there's breath in your body and the sun rises every
>morning, there is always hope. We have good days and bad, but hope and
>faith will keep you going every time. And what is gardening, but an
>exercise in hope and faith? We have faith those bulbs we plant in fall
>will be beautiful flowers in Spring. We hope those seeds we start will
>germinate and that the birds will eat all the grasshoppers. Planting
>something is the finest proof that we believe in the future. Simplistic,
>perhaps. But think about it. And Claire gal - right on!!
>
>
>Pam
>
>---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
>From: "Melody" <mhobertm@excite.com>
>Reply-To: gardenchat@hort.net
>Date:  Fri, 24 Jan 2003 05:28:28 -0500 (EST)
>
>>Claire: As someone still struggling to find less unsettling territory
>in
>>my life (but relishing the lessons that come with that struggle,
>>nonetheless)...thanks for the inspiration of your reassurance...you
>>speak very eloquently and really give me something to look forward to.
>>
>>
>>
>>Melody, IA (Z 5/4)
>>
>>"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."    
>>--Albert Einstein
>>
>> --- On Fri 01/24,  < ECPep@aol.com > wrote:
>>From:  [mailto: ECPep@aol.com]
>>To: gardenchat@hort.net
>>Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 00:14:09 EST
>>Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: now elderly ramblings< now elderly wisdom (or
>any other kind o...
>>
>>In a message dated 1/23/03 10:39:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
>>tchessie@yahoo.com writes:
>>
>>
>>> OK-  somebody quick tell me the secret- how do you keep going
>everyday and
>>> not just want to scream or stay in bed all day!  This has been a
>>> particularly bad week- but- man I need to win the lottery so I can
>retire
>>> and play in my garden instead of going to work!  I actually had to
>talk to
>>> my staff about cleaning up after themselves today
>>> 
>>> So- how do you all keep your sanity??
>>
>>
>>That is a truly good question and will attract a variety of answers
>related 
>>to age.  Passing 50 to 55, one knows that life is filled with reverses
>and 
>>that every day is not a great day.  Following this, you also know the
>sun 
>>comes up and the clock keeps ticking and you will be here tomorrow.
>Looking 
>>back over your years, you understand the situations that made you crazy
>at 30 
>>or 40, you were equal to.  You just don't know it at the time.  As the
>years 
>>go on, you do know you are equal to any disaster that may come your
>way.  I 
>>think I can say this with some confidence as you are not writing
>messages on 
>>the Internet if you have lost your sanity in your youth.  There is no
>secret, 
>>youth is unsettled, aging cures that.
>>
>>It all gets easier, you gain more confidence, you find ways to deal
>with 
>>problems and if you have a garden and have the peace of a garden you
>are 
>>blessed once more.  Painters or anyone who learns to paint along the
>way 
>>seems to have the same peaceful outlook.  The sense of responsibility
>that 
>>prompted this original message will be the same sense that will carry
>you 
>>through the years.  If one asks this question, he is searching and will
>find 
>>a way.   The older we get the more likely it is to hear criticism of
>youth, 
>>it is so easy to forget.  Asking questions and searching for answers is
>a 
>>good thing.  Making decisions is the other problem.
>>
>>Claire Peplowski
>>NYS z4 Cold here too, but with tons of snow and ice and WIND.  Could
>anything 
>>be alive out there?
>>
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>Kemp TX/zone 8A
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