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She doesn't understand how much I need her to be the person who understands her role in the garden.
For now I focus on the harvest of a few friends like cabbage, broccoli, carrots and the soil. I am keenly focused on the fullness of homegrown grapes that will accumulate again especially if I contribute understanding and care again. This year the newborn vines gave what they could of themselves. Next year, they will bear the fruit they live for. It will be their first time. It will be their time nonetheless.
Consider the thoughts of Alice Walker from “In Search of our Mother's Gardens:”
“Please remember, especially in these times of group-think and right-on chorus, that no person is your friend (or kin) who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow and be perceived as fully blossomed as you were intended. Or who belittles in any fashion the gifts you labour so to bring into the world.”
Though I question Autumn, I mainly question myself. Are my friends like gardens or are they like Winter?
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Why do we have such high expectations for things that are so unpredictable?
Gardens are for pleasure, health, and nurturing, just like friends. If the gardens are in a suitable climate and cared for properly, they will last for a lifetime, just like friends.
I asked myself why Autumn does not have more stamina to hang around. Why is Winter being so selfish not allowing Autumn to have her time alone? Winter does not mean to deprive or deny ones rights, especially friends. Or to belittle the gifts that friends worked so hard to bring into the world. Winter sometimes moves in too swiftly and moves out a bit too slowly, just like friends.
If only gardens and Winter had the power to control, their actions and friends had the willpower to control theirs.
I discovered that friends can be both similar to gardens and Winter, but there is one great dissimilarity.
I believe our training teaches us to hope for the sun, rain, a breeze and the type of weather that suits our daily pursuits, then we move on to having hopes for our parents, family, friends, co-workers, neighbors, etc.
What is the great dissimilarity?
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