"RoseGarden" - - - - - - - from - nscave

We grew up on a couple of farms, where we were taught the value of even simple things. My father was always fascinated how you could manipulate the land, plant some seeds and watch them grow.

He was even very good at grafting trees, and taught me how to do that, although I don't know if I could today or not. He had plumbs growing on peach trees, peaches growing on pear trees and all sorts of things like that. In fact he even had pears growing on an evergreen tree, something some had said couldn't be done.

So the value and importance of things was always the main line of his thinking. Managing those farms for years, he was into recycling and efficiency long before the rest of the world even thought of it or knew it existed.

He said to me one day, "There is the most efficient thing ever put on this earth." I am listening, but not understanding. "There isn't anything else that will run on so little fuel, that you get so much power and production out of," he continued. I am looking around at the tractor, the horses that are no longer used much, the hired hand over there cutting up firewood. I am still not getting it.

"You are talking in circles as far as I am concerned," I say. "Care to explain what is amazing you now," I ask?

"You don't know?" he said acting surprised. "Think about it. The human being! For such a tiny bit of food, several times a day, look at what we achieve. There isn't anything else that can compare."

It is pretty hard to dispute that, and it has stuck with me for a long time.

-=One Day At A Time=-

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