Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Happy Birthday


Today is a very important day. 

Ninety-six years ago a great man was born who would later become the father of a great woman.  He walked with me and talked with me and he will never know how much that meant.  Most of what I know about gardens, I learned from him.  Much of what I know about parenting I learned from his daughter.  Without him my life would be very different.

Thirty-four years ago today another great man was born who would walk into my life in a most unusual way and transform it from a dismal wasteland into the garden of youth.  He took my hand and led me back into an appreciation of literature I had almost forgotten.   He read my stories and made me proud of them.  He loved me in spite of myself and I was transformed in ways I thought were completely beyond the realm of possibilities.

The Way is filled with gifts.  Some of them come wrapped in pretty paper, but all of them come wrapped in love.

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