Farmers don’t like morning glories. Pretty, but a nuisance for them. Both Russian olive (aka the politically correct autumn olive) and multiflora rose possess lovely fragrances, and they, too, are nasty invasive flora. Invasive Asian honeysuckle(aka the politically incorrect Japanese honeysuckle), is similar, but in a big thicket on warm humid evenings it’s noisome smell will take your head off.
Autumn olive: Elaeagnus umbellataRussian olive: Eleagnus angustifoliaNo time for other comment … will leave to anyone who wants to to look these up. The E.umbellata is the one the foraging groups get excited about because of their fruit. Best regards.
From https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-canonized-saint-who-began-as-an-everyday-one-st-therese-of-lisieux-catholic-feast-day-little-flower-way-11664306793:
The Little Flower left assurance for all who feel, as she did, they lack the heroic excellence in their own littleness. She looked at the saints who went before her and felt herself a grain of sand in comparison to the towering mountains of their lives. St. Thérèse of Lisieux needed another way to get to heaven, so she prayerfully came up with one: the “Little Way.”
Perfecting her Little Way to sanctity amounts to remembering that “our Lord does not so much look at the greatness of our actions, or even their difficulty, as the love with which we do them.” The occasion to do great deeds, after all, may never come to pass, or when it does it may find us wanting in courage. Small deeds, on the other hand, are everywhere, and when done with great love, they cease to be small.
How fitting the saint with a childlike love of God would intuit that the contrast between big and small has a different meaning to man, who is limited by time and space, than to God, who isn’t.
Doing small things with great love made the Little Flower an everyday saint, and then it made her an official canonized saint. Her life proves what we do with the ordinary can make us extraordinary. There is nothing little about that way.
A# 466 over 1 year ago
Farmers don’t like morning glories. Pretty, but a nuisance for them. Both Russian olive (aka the politically correct autumn olive) and multiflora rose possess lovely fragrances, and they, too, are nasty invasive flora. Invasive Asian honeysuckle(aka the politically incorrect Japanese honeysuckle), is similar, but in a big thicket on warm humid evenings it’s noisome smell will take your head off.
kaffekup over 1 year ago
Plant vegetables for the refugees, Leo, and you an Gabby will be working together.
communitygardenslondon over 1 year ago
Autumn olive: Elaeagnus umbellataRussian olive: Eleagnus angustifoliaNo time for other comment … will leave to anyone who wants to to look these up. The E.umbellata is the one the foraging groups get excited about because of their fruit. Best regards.
Out of the Past over 1 year ago
Didn’t he already say what he was doing?
prrdh over 1 year ago
From https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-canonized-saint-who-began-as-an-everyday-one-st-therese-of-lisieux-catholic-feast-day-little-flower-way-11664306793:
The Little Flower left assurance for all who feel, as she did, they lack the heroic excellence in their own littleness. She looked at the saints who went before her and felt herself a grain of sand in comparison to the towering mountains of their lives. St. Thérèse of Lisieux needed another way to get to heaven, so she prayerfully came up with one: the “Little Way.”
Perfecting her Little Way to sanctity amounts to remembering that “our Lord does not so much look at the greatness of our actions, or even their difficulty, as the love with which we do them.” The occasion to do great deeds, after all, may never come to pass, or when it does it may find us wanting in courage. Small deeds, on the other hand, are everywhere, and when done with great love, they cease to be small.
How fitting the saint with a childlike love of God would intuit that the contrast between big and small has a different meaning to man, who is limited by time and space, than to God, who isn’t.
Doing small things with great love made the Little Flower an everyday saint, and then it made her an official canonized saint. Her life proves what we do with the ordinary can make us extraordinary. There is nothing little about that way.