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July 05, 2007
The Beauty of Being Tough
This spring, as I was weeding the graveled portion of our driveway, I spotted a small hollyhock. I tried to dig it up, to transplant it, but the ground was too hard to dig deeply. I couldn't get more than a couple of inches down. So I blocked it off (to keep it from being run over) and left it to fend for itself.
This week, it bloomed:
Tenacity is a beautiful thing.
Posted by sally at July 5, 2007 08:14 PM
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Sally, I said on my blog, now I say it on yours: I love you!
I totally trust you to be my good big sister and have my back when I need it, and you did. You are not part of the problem of which I bitched in my blog.
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at July 6, 2007 12:08 PM
Tenacity may be a good thing, yes, but when the flow chooses to grow in an area where it would be squished if you didn't intervene adds a whole new layer to the paradigm. Pretty flower.
Posted by: Eris at July 6, 2007 01:24 PM
Eris -- How could I not block it off when it had the audacity to grow in the gravel driveway in the first place? Hollyhocks only bloom after their second year. Which means that it somehow didn't get killed for two whole winters before I intervened.
Heather -- Isn't it amazing how open that whole group tends to be with each other? I think it has to be Paul's class. That's where it started. Though thanks to the shared belch of OCG, we've had a bond for slightly longer than that. Or don't you remember?
Posted by: Sallyacious at July 6, 2007 04:19 PM
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