Food For Thought

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The FFT garden was all green and shiny a month ago, filled with young greens. Now, the pastel blooms of spring sweet peas and poppies have been replaced with the first faces of our vibrant sunflowers.

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It brings to mind this passage from Mary Oliver’s poem “The Sunflowers”

“…Come with me
to visit the sunflowers,
they are shy

but want to be friends;
they have wonderful stories
of when they were young -
the important weather,

the wandering crows.
Don’t be afraid
to ask them questions!”

By the way, Mary Oliver will be reading her work December 1, at the Wells Fargo Center for the Arts in Santa Rosa and tickets are still available!