<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448736" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Tending the Garden</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Grandmother dug into the earth saying<br>'men, family, children<br>are like tending to the garden.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">First, you have to have good seed<br>and good dark earth.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I used to help her tend the garden<br>on my Sunday visits-a patch in the<br>back of her house.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Get a good fertilizer, find the right spot, <br>location matters in all this, <br>bad location<br>the family, the children, the wife, the men<br>don't do so good.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Plant the good seeds of decency.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Tell the truth, work hard, <br>don't get mean<br>and cynical, <br>love peace, <br>help your neighbor.<br>Simple, really.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then you find what each plant needs.<br>Some like a lot of light<br>some like shade, <br>then afternoon or morning light, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each is different.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And have to take the time<br>to find out what works for each.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And you water your damp ground<br>til that first little leaf comes up, <br>pokes up its little head<br>looking at the first light of its life<br>of its first day.<br> <br>That feels good.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then you water it, <br>let it know it is welcome in this world, <br>that someone cares.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And you tend to it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Keep the weeds away, <br>the ants and the snails, <br>and big feet trampling<br>and it grows, <br>til you have your first bud<br>that flowers, <br>and the branches get sturdy, <br>and supports more and more of the buds, <br>and then the early flowers, <br>and then the full blossomings.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pretty soon you have your garden, <br>and you teach your kids, <br>and your grandkids how to keep<br>it flowering; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">like that<br>generation after generation.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of course you need the Son, <br>the Father too<br>and the Holy Ghost<br>.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lonnie+Hicks">Lonnie Hicks</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=448736" data-title="Tending the Garden de Lonnie Hicks" data-description="Grandmother dug into the earth saying 'men, family, children are like tending to the garden. First, you have to have good seed and good dark earth.' I used to help her tend the garden on my Sunday visits-a patch in the back of her house. 'Get a..."></div> </div> </div>

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