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  • The Good Life

    You know you’re living the good life when:

    desk1. You can enjoy the amazing fragrance of a bouquet of flowers for your desk every week from May through September.

    2. You can eat delicate, flavorful mesclun salads for lunch several days a week.

    3. You can enjoy mint tea anytime you want it.

    4. You can step outside at any given moment and experience a whole thriving ecosystem of birds, squirrels, butterflies, bees, and plants (and myriad things you can’t see).

    5. Your plots are planted, and you can look forward to several months of fresh, healthy food for your family.

    And it’s all possible through gardening. It’s not expensive, or flashy, and it isn’t all that likely to make the news. It’s a life that you build for yourself, day by day, through a million tiny (and some Herculean) efforts. A dandelion pulled here, some mulch added to the soil there. A new bed dug and an old bed improved yet again. A seed sown, a seedling watered, a shrub pruned.

    Tiny, simple actions that, one by one, coalesce into what can only be called “the good life.”

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    5 comments to “The Good Life”

    Chookie, May 21st, 2009 at 2:38 am:

    • Amen!

    James, May 21st, 2009 at 4:47 am:

    • “HERE HERE!” **raises glass**

    Dave, May 21st, 2009 at 5:14 am:

    • Definitely!

    commonweeder, May 22nd, 2009 at 12:53 pm:

    • You have nailed it. And don’t forget the part about having the ideal place for children to frolic.

    Monica, May 25th, 2009 at 9:52 am:

    • We enjoyed our first meal last night on our deck. Just perfect!

      Thanks for your post!
      Monica

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