Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me and who I really love.
My passion for gardening may strike some as selfish or merely an act of resignation in the face of overwhelming problems that beset the world. It is neither. I have found that each garden is just what Voltaire proposed in Candide: a microcosm of a just and beautiful society.
