OT-CHAT: slough of despond
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  • Subject: OT-CHAT: slough of despond
  • From: L* M* <1*@rewrite.hort.net>
  • Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2015 08:18:57 -0400
While wandering the internet this morning, I accidentally ran across the literary reference that Neil Mogensen was making when he called my iris patch the "slough of despond". It morphed from there to the "vale of despair", or as KK calls it, "iris hell". 

It's from Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress!
Wiki:
'This miry Slough is such a place as cannot be mended; it is the descent whither the scum and filth that attends conviction for sin doth continually run, and therefore is it called the Slough of Despond: for still as the sinner is awakened about his lost condition, there ariseth in his soul many fears, and doubts, and discouraging apprehensions, which all of them get together, and settle in this place; and this is the reason of the badness of this ground.'
I didn't realize at the time that it was anything other than general "humor". So for those of you who are long time iris-talk readers, I thought I'd share. ;-)
Lots of damage out there from the freeze last? week, week before?, but some things are attempting to send up stalks, especially in the rows I covered. 

Linda Mann
east TN frost pocket zone 7 USA

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