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<center>I love hydrangea bushes. There is something so reminiscent of my childhood that makes me love them. Perhaps because my mother loved hers and she always took special care of it. It is possible. </center>

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<center>*My hydrangea is so very special. It stands alone with this distinction. Just this one. They are all beautiful, but, this one came with me when I moved from another house, a house with so many memories. So many very good times, so much laughter and so much life... and then, in the middle of the night, when nobody was looking, a life-changing event invaded my life. Changing it forever. A few years later, when I moved, I took my little hydrangea with me. I give it special attention, wanting it to stay healthy and grow old with me.*</center>



<center>**Later that night
I held an atlas in my lap
Ran my fingers across the whole world
And whispered,
"Where does it hurt?"
It answered,**</center>

<center>**"Everywhere"
"Everywhere"
"Everywhere"**</center>

<center>**-Warsan Shire**</center>


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<center>Of course, by using this poem, I realize that I purposedly used it out of context. But, at the time, I felt like it was written for me. Did you ever find a piece of poetry or words written that felt like they were speaking to you? </center>

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*<center>I toil endlessly in my garden, sometimes using the last of the daylight to tend the soil. It is usually the flowers that I am tending until the end of my time. I love all different kinds of flowers. Every year, I have such a hard time choosing flowers when I go to the nursery. I love them all and this makes the task so much harder. In the end, it all works out and I am pretty sure that there is no wrong flower, just wrong places to plant them.</center>*

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### <center>More land in which to spread the seed is what I really need.</center>


<center>Maybe not really more, because I have only so much time to play in the garden but, a wave of the magic wand will grant me time to do whatever I want. Work or don't work. Play. Play harder. See? Be all you can be. </center>

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*<center>Words have some degree of inadequacy
Leaving me in haste
You speak without saying a word
As you often do
I hear whispers of truth, somewhere in the distance
Covered in layers, for me to undo
How can I deny you
The first chance of the season
To make it all right
Once again</center>*

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<center>To think that this all started by planting a seed. Seeds are what got me hooked on plants and now I harvest the seeds from the flowers and vegetables every year, carefully letting them dry and then putting them in a place that is cool and dry until the next season. Oh, yes. So many things begin when you plant seeds.</center>

<center>*Are you in the habit of planting seeds? Adding water and pulling the weeds? All it took was for me to read, turn over the card and continue, proceed. Do you? Do you?*</center>


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<center>All I have are my words, armed in my mind, written in pen, stand by stand. Oh, yes. Still by hand. It has a different feel. Altered not by keys, backspace, and delete, I write, erase, tear it to pieces and start all over again. And again.</center>

**<center>It’s my way. I walk out to the deep end of the page and dive right in.</center>**

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</center>Keep on playing your song! Don't ever forget what wonderful world we live in, people. Let's hold hands around the globe and make this earth really spin! Thanks for stopping by! All words and images are mine and can be also found on my various social media sites.</center>

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<center>**The Naming of Cats**</center>

<center>*The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter,
It isn’t just one of your holiday games;
You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter
When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES.*</center>

<center>*TS Elliot*</center>

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