Plant your flowers, as God does, with a careless hand and a loving eye.
From A World Worth Saving, one of 296 sayings written by John Sarris over thirty years.
From Alfred’s journal
The Dunlaps' front yard is laid out in rows, every marigold the same distance from the next, and I have landed on that fence enough times to know it bores me. Two doors down the lot nobody mows has coneflowers coming up through the gravel, crooked, in clumps, and the bees were all there this morning and none of them next door. For years I thought the difference was neglect, that one yard was loved and the other abandoned. Then I watched Mrs. Dunlap out there with her string and her ruler, her mouth tight, not once looking at the flower in her hand. Plant your flowers, as God does, with a careless hand and a loving eye. The vacant lot has no one tending it at all, which is a hole in the thought I have not filled yet.
He reads what you tell him and writes a page of his journal back, with a few of these chosen for you. It costs nothing and asks for nothing.
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