The Graphics of Life

A few months ago, a friend and I planted seeds for our future gardens and began waiting eagerly to see green emerge from the small containers of dirt. Due to the setups of our homes, we each gave our seeds a different environment in which to grow. My friend was able to keep her seeds inside where they got to enjoy the warmth from her woodstove and the sunlight beaming in from her dining room windows. My seeds however did not get such luxury due to a lack of space inside and the lack of a woodstove. Instead, I placed my little seeds in “growing houses” I made from storage bins and put them on porch of my free-standing office. There were a few nights when the temperatures fell drastically that I brought the growing boxes inside, but for the most part my seeds lived in their little houses outside on my porch. As the weeks went by, I got a report from my friend that her seeds had sprouted. I was excited for her, but I couldn’t help but wonder why my seeds had not sprouted since we planted...

Silly question, but do you know that words have meanings? I sometymes wonder if a lot of people forget that little fact. The older I get, the more I realize that many people use words where they don't belong, mainly off-color or foul language that really does not convey the true essence of what they are trying to say. I have always thought that if I cannot find a word that expresses my intended meaning, then I shouldn't be talking. Perhaps it is because of my black and white brain and my inability to understand "gray area" very well at all. If you say cow, I picture a cow. If you say "sea cow", I picture a sea and a cow...it takes my brain some processing to realize you are referring to a manatee. Now granted, my brain and I have been together for quite a while now, so many of the processes happen quickly and I can keep up, but sometymes that is not the case. Sometymes my brain gets hung up on words, because they don't mean what people are trying to say....