Little Miracles
When I was seven, I begged my parents for my own little vegetable garden. I'd fallen in love with a kitchen garden friends of my parents had. My parents weren't gardeners but indulged my new passion. We lived at that time in a new suburban development north of Montreal in Canada. The flat freshly laid sod and spindly new trees did nothing to feed my soul. Somehow, I knew the secret joys of growing things from the earth was a sacred act. My garden (shown below) was only a sliver in size but nothing tasted sweeter than my first tissue-thin lettuce. Little miracles, I called them, then and now.
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Posted by Layla Morgan Wilde at 2/23/2012 12:32 AM 
Categories: Food, Baby Boomers, Nature, Spirituality
Tags: little miracles-quote-gardening children-garden-miracle joys-nature-sacred-earth-childhood
Categories: Food, Baby Boomers, Nature, Spirituality
Tags: little miracles-quote-gardening children-garden-miracle joys-nature-sacred-earth-childhood
What a beautiful miracle garden! What an adorable picture!!!
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Alicia, thanks
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Gosh, what a gorgeous and sweet cutie pie you were! And tall! You look like you could have grown into the beanstalk Jack had wanted. Either you were very fast or you're about 5 foot 10. Of course, my doc wondered if I'd ever reach 5 feet. I did.
Such a beautiful garden. I feel the lushness of it through the Internet-film.
A really wonderful photo. Thanks for the story..
Demand Media is seeking writers who are expert gardeners. I don't garden. And seeking experts in food writing.
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Kathryn, thanks. I'm no expert gardener. And I'm not tall. Just coltish in the pic.
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Your little garden looks pretty impressive to someone like me, who has two black thumbs! Cute photo of you!
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Ingrid, thanks! I'm what I call an accidental gardener. I still don't know what I'm doing. Sometime it works sometimes it doesn't but I like break breaking rules and figure there's always another season.
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You are definitely a colt! Cutest pony I ever saw!
You're still taller than I am. 5 foot 2 now. Was 5 foot 3.
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Layla, what a great photo of you and your garden. You look so triumphant. My older brother lived in a small urban development just north of Montreal called Chomedey. I used to visit him quite frequently. Over the years I made many good friends there.
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OMG, that was my town!
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