My mother had a green thumb. I can\u2019t remember there ever being a time when she wasn\u2019t growing something inside the house, and usually outside too. I don\u2019t seem to have inherited that gift, and honestly I haven\u2019t tried too hard to cultivate it.<\/p>\n

My husband and I have talked a lot lately about nature versus nurture, as we watch our three children marching quickly into adulthood. We wonder if we nurtured the right qualities in them, and how much is their nature going to take, over no matter what we tried.<\/p>\n

I found myself out on the back deck today, digging through the myriad of pots I have from my various attempts to have a flowering area. First I stuck in the peony remnants from my mishap with the weed eater last weekend. Then I potted the dried up basil plant my husband bought that he stuck outside with no rain for a week. While looking through the rest of the pots and seeing the various growing plants coming up that I do not recognize, I remembered something my mother told me. I asked her one time what some plant was growing in a pot on her porch and she said she didn\u2019t know. It was some \u201cweed\u201d, but she liked how it looked and so she stuck it in a pot and let it be itself. So I cleaned up and moved around and kept what are probably weeds in pots on my deck. Who\u2019s to say what has value and what doesn\u2019t while it\u2019s growing? I\u2019ll nurture and see what happens. If I need to do some \u201cweeding\u201d later, I will.<\/p>\n

I know there are some \u201cweeds\u201d in my children that will need clearing out (not by me but by life), but sometimes nature\u2019s \u201cweeds\u201d bloom into something beautiful that just hasn\u2019t been recognized yet. I think I\u2019ll just nurture and watch. Both my pots on the deck and our children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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