Simplify

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The events

of the last few months and years

have stretched us.

We are worn

and we are weary.

Hopefully we are a little wiser too.

We are looking ahead

to Gardening Season 2011.

How could it be that time once again?

Those 1st 4 Gardening Seasons

on this Little Farm,

we were set on expansion.

We had successes

and we wanted more.

So we overdid it.

It took the outside stresses

of this last year

to see that

we simply could not care

for it all.

We could not enjoy it

in the way that desire.

This year,

we ask:

What is essential?

And, what can be just set aside?

Simplify.

Simplify.

Simplify.

These days,

that is a kind

and nurturing balm.

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Glinda Crawford, 2011

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