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While it is still summer and the leaves are green, I thought I would present a poem I wrote about The Leaf. It is a testament to the life span of leaves, and their group contribution to the success of the tree. In many ways we are each a leaf of the tree of life and community. |
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The Leaf Brown and wrinkled on the ground By Rob Hueniken
First published: Aug 31, 2009 @ 17:05 |
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Each autumn a diaspora of children, young and getting older, spreads into schools and communities across the nation. As the parent of a university-aged daughter, I hold dearly my role in helping her grow from a teen to an adult.
Yesterday my wife and I helped our daughter move into her new home, using two cars to ensure there was enough room for all the furniture, clothes and fridge. There were many things to bring, but none as precious as the promise of new learnings and opportunities to share and grow.
It was a successful day of setting up that included me helping her put up photo frames and attach white water lily flowers to the walls. I wondered for a moment about what landlords think of 30 flowers stuck into the wall, but the final result was of beauty, joy and new creation. That is what we hope for in times of growth.
While spring and summer are the main growing months for crops, the autumn is the time for children. I cherish my daughter, and the moments I get to help her directly. I relish and respect the chance I get to help a child. Step by step, flower by flower, they becoming the people they are meant to be.
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Today we celebrated the truly endless love of family and friendships — the love that each of us can be part of.
I had the honor of helping to celebrate the life of my daughter-in-law’s grandfather. Bruce lived to be 91, and he and Ida had been married for 70 years. That is a long life of love.
My daughter-in-law’s sister, Laura, is a wonderful photo archivist, and put together four big photo boards, showing Bruce’s life in hundreds of moments. It was fascinating to see the history and younger days of the wonderful family my son has married me into. His marriage has added to our family’s love.
Looking at the many photos one could easily see how the love of family was so important to Bruce, and how that joy had been, and continues to be, shared and multiplied through his friendships, children, grandchildren and now great-grandchildren. This growing and expanding of love is truly endless love — not the pop song “endless love” between two people, but the ever-widening sharing of time and caring that everyone can be part of.
By gathering to honor him, we were reminded of what a great treasure it is to have a loving family and friends, both in good times and hard times.
A wise man once told me that to grow love we need to act lovingly to others. Love is more than a feeling — it is an action. Together we create love.
I urge you to try harder with your family, friends and co-workers, to be the one showing kindness. Help to build community and friendships one smile at a time. Be a nucleus for love.
Let’s be the farmers growing love, tending our relationships, both small and deep, so that each day there can be more love. And remember each day, in small ways and larger, to be celebrating love — the most important thing we get to share.
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| Bruce and Ida, ten years ago, celebrating their 60th anniversary. They went on to 70 years, and to show how each of us can widen our circles of love. Let’s be part of a growing network of friends and family. |
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Thoughtful reflections on life, by my friend, RonBaker-c1:29
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San Francisco foodie and scientist, Darya Pino, Summer Tomato
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