The object in America is to avoid contact, to treat all as foes unless they're known to be friends. But the garden's greatest benefit, I feel, as not relief to the eyes, but to make the eyes sees our neighbors. Sweedish Proverbs Be Not Solitary. Be Not Idle. The best things that can come out of the garden are gifts for other people.
Friends are like the pillars on a porch.
Sometimes they hold you up, sometimes they lean on you, and sometimes it's just enough to know that they are standing by. Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. The purpose of seasonal festivals is periodically to revive the topocosm. Gaster coined this word from the Greek - topo for place and cosmos for world order.