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Planting The Future

Fifty tulip bulbs are in; there are another hundred to go. It's my way of looking ahead. Looking toward the future.

The experts tell us to take small steps away from our sorrow. Do what feels right.

Planting the bulbs feels right. So they are tucked away, surrounded by fertile soil, but nowhere near ready to blossom.

Six months down the road, after heavy rains and freezes and snow storms, all the elements that affect their future, these bulbs will greet the world again as beautiful flowers.

New growth and new life.

Those tulips and I ... on a parallel course.

-- Laurie

7:00 AM ET | 10-14-2008 | permalink

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