Apr 03 2011
I grew up in the 1960′s when we didn’t have TV in our home. I would spend hours looking at the little cacti that my mother planted grow in size, length and height or just multiplied in numbers. I would mentally take note of the mother cactus, father cactus and the baby cacti. Often these [...]
Mar 10 2011
My late mother would save all the tin cans from the can foods that we sometimes consumed. First she would remove the labels of the cans if possible. She would then use a nail and hammer to make small holes in them. These would then be filled with soil and broken pieces of bricks or [...]
Jun 19 2010
The word ‘contentment’, according to the Oxford Dictionary, means a feeling of satisfaction with what one has; not wanting more; happy and also accepting the state one is in even though one would have liked more or better. How true this word is in one’s life. As I was watering my plants this morning, this [...]