Of Friends and Gardens

**camprn** 3/3/2012, 2:43 pm

Let us give thanks for a bounty of people:

For children who are our second planting, and, though they grow like weeds and the wind too soon blows them away, may they forgive us our cultivation and fondly remember where their roots are.

Let us give thanks:

For generous friends…with hearts as big as Hubbards and smiles as bright as their blossoms;

For feisty friends as tart as apples;

For continuous friends, who, like scallions and cucumbers, keep reminding us we had them;

For crotchety friends, as sour as rhubarb and as indestructible;

For handsome friends, who are as gorgeous as eggplants and as elegant as a row of corn — and the others — as plain as potatoes, and so good
for you.

For funny friends, who are as silly as Brussels sprouts and as amusing as Jerusalem artichokes, and serious friends as complex as cauliflowers and as intricate as onions;

For
friends as unpretentious as cabbages, as subtle as summer squash, as persistent as parsley, as delightful as dill, as endless as zucchini, and who — like parsnips — can be counted on to see you through the long winter;

For old friends, nodding like sunflowers in the evening-time, and young friends coming on as fast as radishes;

For loving friends, who wind around us like tendrils, and hold us despite our blights, wilts, and witherings;

And finally, for those friends now gone, like gardens past, that have been harvested — but who fed us in their times that we might have life thereafter;

For all these we give thanks.

Source:
the late Rev. Max Coots, who was Minister Emeritus of the Unitarian
Universalist Church in Canton, New York. His passion for gardening
yielded this beloved and much used meditation.

Luci Dawson 3/3/2012, 4:20 pm

Outstanding, camprn! Thanks so much for sharing this with us. happy hi

shannon1 3/4/2012, 12:26 am

That was just beautiful thank you. I have been a member of the UU fellowship here for nigh on 20yrs and never heard that. Just wonderful

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