Happy Thanksgiving!

Garden Meditations

by Max Coots

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...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 that we've had them;

For crotchety friends, 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 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 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.

I'm thankful for all my dear blogging friends, and appreciate each and every comment you leave. Thanks so much for stopping by. I love hearing from you!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Photos are of my Zygo Cacti, aka Christmas or Thanksgiving Cactus.
 
Thanks to Susan of Patchwork Reflections for sending me this lovely poem.