Let us plant a garden sown with seeds of love.
Let us water it with kindness,
And tend it with patience and good judgment.
Let us plant a row of empathy,
And another of generosity.
Then a row of corn.
Two, actually, let's do two rows of corn.
And tomatoes.
Cherry tomatoes, though, regular ones are too hard.
No lettuce. Fuck lettuce.
We'll do a row of candy instead.
And booze.
Not the ingredients for booze, actual booze.
If we're planting "empathy" I'm pretty sure we can figure out how to plant booze.
So, what do we got, we got kindness, corn, tomatoes, candy, booze ... what am I forgetting?
Crossbows.
To keep out the birds.
And the assholes.
We'll probably come up with some other stuff as we get into it, but this is a good start.
This is gonna be a kickass garden.
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Bonnie forwarded this to her teacher friends who are doing a gardening unit. Doubt they'll pass it on to the actual 7th graders in question, but that thought makes me happy.
I'm totally forwarding this to my brother in law who has a vegetable garden - Irene
I just printed this out and put it in a frame on my bookcase in my office. No, really. I did. I can't wait for the day when someone I am having a meeting with says "Does that say "Fuck Lettuce?'" Although I am not sure whether I am hoping it is student or my boss.
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