Yesterday I struck up a conversation with a women in the gardening department at Home Depot. After talking about our respective gardens for a while (hers being much more established than mine) she said she was going home to thin out some of her favorite flowers and had been trying unsuccessfully to find a good home for them. She asked if I lived nearby, and if so, if I might be interested. Absolutely!A few hours later she was showing me her lovely gardens, full of beautiful flowers and plants I'd never seen before. And, she had already prepared about 10 different cuttings for me to bring home. I offered to pay her, but she smiled and said "No, this is what gardeners do. When it's time, you can pay it forward from your gardens."
What a beautiful gift and a more beautiful challenge to pay it forward.
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