Gardening

I come from a poor family. I never had brand-name shoes or video games, or even a Lisa Frank binder and stickers like my friends at school, but I always had plenty of food in the fridge at home. My family never went hungry in spite of the fact that we were raised by a single mother who made her living as a coffee shop waitress. I did not know, till I was a teenager, that my mom bought the majority of our groceries with food stamps. It never seemed odd to me that she went to the grocery store one…

SA 2: "The Chrysanthemums" is a short story of John Steinbeck which reflects the frustration in the present life of Elisa Allen, strong and proud woman. This frustration arises from not having a child as well as from the dissatisfaction in a romantic relationship with her husband. The only possible way out for Elisa's frustration is her beautiful flower garden where she plants chrysanthemums. The author frequently uses chrysanthemums as a symbol as well as a number of other items in order to…

My heart broke, and I let out a boisterous groan as the last string trimmer malfunctioned and the weedwhacker slowly churned to a stop. I had been consumed by my thoughts of planning my senior speech, crafting my life plan of becoming a nurse anesthetist, and figuring out what I wanted to eat for breakfast to notice that I was walking so rapidly that I had outworked the machine. It was a humid Sunday morning, the grass was still wet with morning dew when I had abruptly woken up and tied on my…

Early this year, my grandmother became very ill and required around the clock attention. My family and I wanted to make sure she was taken care of physically, but we also wanted to make sure her meals were healthy and nutritious. Through word of mouth, I heard about the Meals on Wheels program that just happened to be in my county. I contacted the site manager and the next day, the agency started to deliver meals to my grandmother’s home. We were so grateful because we could concentrate on other…

I got too "Distracted" (). If I am being honest, I have a terrible attention span. My mind wanders easy. It's a problem. Gardening requires a lot of focus, focus I simply did not have. I allowed myself to get distracted easily when gardening. For example, if I was weeding one bed, but noticed more weeds in another bed, I would move to that bed. If I was planting tomatoes and I noticed I had not perfectly planted a pepper plant,…

dancing classes. It would allow for older adults to be exposed to things they might otherwise have not been, and vice versa. They could benefit from learning things about technology from young adults and children, while older adults could teach gardening and dancing skills. This type of program would be easily implemented in a variety of different community settings with little to no financial burden. Also, they would be easily accessible because it would not require many outside parties or…

was brave and that is what counts in this story. Tari Hatcher voiced the Mother and the Other Mother, who was convincing enough to portray three sides of the same character. The Mother was impatient and unavailable to Coraline due to her upcoming gardening book. On the other hand, the Other Mother was kind, attentive and super sweet to Coraline but deceiving she was. Her darker side came towards the end, showing an evil and twisted monster who wants to trap Coraline. The Father and Other Father…

talents for jobs were assessed to see if they could attend classes of higher learning and train as experts. What jobs were there in a tribe? In a traditional Maori tribe the Maori people worked and helped within their whānau (family). Jobs like gardening, harvesting, hunting, fishing and eeling were seasonal. Some tasks, such as rat trapping, canoe building and fighting wars were done by able bodied men, weaving and cooking was done by women. Tohunga were specialists in areas such as carving,…

Suggested Headline: Are Your Cemetery Trees a Safety Risk? Suggested Subheading: Learn how to perform a risk assessment on your trees – and why it’s important to do so each season. Your trees – with their beautiful budding branches – provide cemetery visitors a quiet, shady place to reflect. Yet those enormous, stunning trees won’t always be a safe haven for your guests to sit under. From just-planted to always-present, all trees need a seasonal inspection to ensure the safety of your…

I have numerous plans that I want to accomplish. Right now, they seem a little difficult and time-consuming. Thankfully, I am aligning my values and goals together. This will help me organize my thoughts in a less complicated way. In the end, I do have faith in myself that I will be able to do everything. I have six main values. Some of the values I currently do very well while others need more work. First, I value serving God in my heart and then reflecting it in all areas of my life. Serving…