Please read my favorite blogger

http://melissa-adayinthelife.blogspot.com/

This lovely family lives near me. The mother is a writer and a friend and a great mom. What I love, besides the blog on her nursery school aged daughter giving a planeful of passengers a sex education lesson, is the saga of the apple seeds. It portrays a wisdom that I don't think even Melissa realised as she reacted to just another mothering situation..

Simply put, her daughters ate an apple and thought they should plant the seeds. Instead of saying what a dumb idea it was, she researched the chances of the apples growing, which she found were almost nil...still she let the girls try it. Much to her surprise they sprouted and they just received their first transplant.

Now how many ideas have we given up on because of someone putting the idea down? How many times have we discouraged someone else by calling something impossible or stupid? Somehow, the idea of trying or exploring the possibilities until the action is taken or discarded, has a beauty of seizing the day in the best carpe diem manner possible.

Melissa's action has made me pledge to be the one who always says, "What would you have to do to make it happen?"

Will one day there be an orchard behind their house? It isn't important for the girls, who are probably already imagining apple crumble (receipe also on blog) from their efforts, have learned something far more important -- the experience of trying, of the path not the goal taught from a simple apple.