1/6
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
2/6
Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.
3/6
The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
4/6
A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you ripe on a plate. And while you live, relentlessly she understands you.
5/6
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
6/6
God knows that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.
