RE: gardening's implications
- To: perennials@mallorn.com
- Subject: RE: gardening's implications
- From: S*
- Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 9:16:19 -0600
Well said, Gene. Not to mention what gardening can teach you:
patience
delayed gratification
long-term planning
if at first you don't succeed....
enjoy the process, not just the end result
The list is endless. This coming from one of the formerly most impatient
people in the world!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GeneBush [g*@otherside.com]
> Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 2:00 PM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: gardening's implications
> > > Hello Isabelle,
> I honestly believe that I learned more about people in my > garden over the past
> 15 years, or so, then from people themselves in the previous > (unmentionable)
> years. Patience, acceptance, giving them all the > encouragement one can and
> allowing them to bloom in their own time and way. Recognizing > weeds, but allowing
> them to pull their own... when they choose to weed..
> Not easy being a gardener or a human being... but sure is > rewarding.
> Gene Bush Southern Indiana Zone 6a Munchkin Nursery
> around the woods - around the world
> genebush@otherside.com http://www.munchkinnursery.com
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Isabelle Hayes <bhayes@catskill.net>
> Subject: gardening's implications
> > > > Greetings: I would just like to acknowledge a further > benefit of being
> > a gardener, and that is that one must develop a philosophic point of
> > view after a while;
> snip........
> > Then, of course, there are other causes for us to become > philosophic:
> > when one summer it doesn't hardly rain, or it rains too > much; when all
> > the blooms are being eaten by slugs, or japanese beetles; > when mold or
> > rust strikes, and on and on.
> snip.....
> > I won't go on, but I could...
> >
> > Isabelle Hayes
> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------
> To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the
> message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
>
NOTICE: This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient or believe that you may have received this communication in error, please reply to the sender indicating that fact and delete the copy you received. In addition, you should not print, copy, retransmit, disseminate, or otherwise use the information. Thank you.
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
