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Johann von Goethe - Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

What today brings...

Posted 3/31/12
Tomorrow is the first day of April. Time is passing quickly this year. I seem to be constantly busy and yet, don't feel I'm missing the things that matter. It is raining and gray, but the tulips have bloomed as have the bermuda buttercup (oxalis pes-caprae) and california poppies. All bring such brightness and color to the garden when I look out; red, yellow and orange. The lilacs are just budded and ready to offer that incredible aroma. The orange iris has a flower stalk that will open soon. I've been able to spend some time with family and friends as well as working on many projects for work and life. It's a good year.

I'm looking forward to April as the month for spending all my spare time preparing my garden beds and planning which cuttings I'll be working on this summer. I think more fuschia certainly and I think I want to try some olive cuttings too. I will be experimenting with hanging vegetables this year as well as the traditional raised bed versions. The finches are nesting and happy little creatures. They drop to the water dishes on the deck outside my kitchen window and watch me inside while they sip and bathe outside. See more entries

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"Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness." - George Sand