Comments on: What Hope Looks Like: A Short Photo Essay

By: moonwatcher

moonwatcher — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 17:09:39 +0000

Thanks, Charleen! 🙂

By: Charleen

Charleen — Mon, 21 Apr 2014 12:40:47 +0000

Very good idea, I will be trying this!

By: moonwatcher

moonwatcher — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 15:11:50 +0000

Hi Sally, thanks so much! That’s what I did when I found out about this–went out and bought some organic romaine hearts in a package that happened to be 30 percent off. They are still going and the little leaves taste great. Just very fun and funny to me. I feel happy in my heart to know that my “better than it was” philosophyy is helping you make your way through some long slow projects. All best!

By: Sally

Sally — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:10:01 +0000

Maria – this is awesome. I might go get some romaine just to try it!

I have to tell you that I have some long slow projects going in my life and your “better every day” keeps me going. Thank you as always.

By: moonwatcher

moonwatcher — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 19:30:37 +0000

Hi Jude, what a cool idea about the miracle grow. I wonder if it would also work with organic potting soil. You got my wheels turning!! Thanks!

By: Jude

Jude — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 19:01:18 +0000

Can’t wait to try this. I’ve already decided to try to grow greens as seen on facebook – a bag of Miracle Grow laying down with plastic cut away on top. Sow seeds on top of soil.

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By: moonwatcher

moonwatcher — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 16:28:41 +0000

Dear Susan, you are welcome–no worries about responding–you are perfectly entitled to your loopy state of being!! 🙂 I really love what you say here about the romaine teaching you that “the best time is now–something new rising up every minute that we live.” Beautifully said. And so true. I’ve had to make myself eat some of those little lettuce leaves and not get all involved in how much bigger they might get or how long they will last–so I’m with you on that. Today I noticed some of the root crowns of the baby bok choi are disintegrating, so I may do yet another science experiment and see if they’ll pot up. It’s all about embracing the choices we can make in the moment with the circumstances we are given. Thanks for giving us all such wonderful virtual circumstances in which to meet and support each other. All the best loving and healing thoughts as you recover!!

By: Susan Voisin

Susan Voisin — Sun, 30 Mar 2014 16:16:11 +0000

Maria, thank you so much for dedicating such hopeful thoughts and photos to my recovery. I wish I had noticed it sooner, but I’ve been kind of loopy the last few days. 🙂

I’ve grown the romaine ends before with limited success–they grow, but then I wait too long, expecting them to get bigger, and they rot before I eat them. So maybe they have become my metaphor for seizing the moment and not putting things off, hoping that there will be a better time. The best time is now–something new rising up every minute that we live.

By: moonwatcher

moonwatcher — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 19:25:56 +0000

Thanks so much for your kind words, Veronica, so eloquently expressed. I just poked two green onion into some moist potting soil in a pot and they are already sprouting. 🙂

By: moonwatcher

moonwatcher — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 19:24:16 +0000

Thanks so much, Savvy Sister!!