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Letter Box
Reformer.com
Wednesday, May 21
Garden flowers aren't yours for the taking
Editor of the Reformer:
As I type, my anger this year is not nearly as intense or long lasting as it was last year. Last year, my flower thief took my Queen of the Night black tulips. Those are my favorite flowers. The ones taken this year (so far) were two of my white tulips. They were swiped in broad daylight as well. It strikes me as rather bold to take someone's flowers in broad daylight. So I find myself wondering, why my garden and not the surrounding ones? Their tulips are just as tempting, just as colorful, if not more so. Is it that my garden seems more impersonal, not belonging to a person? Is it that it seems that no one lives at this house and the flowers are lonely? Is it that perhaps the flowers are speaking to my thief? Crying out "Please! Take me out of here!" I really must wonder if perhaps my flowers just don't want to be here. Because I certainly want them here, very much. I am greatly saddened again that someone would do this.
And to address my thief directly: Someone does live here who works very hard to make those flowers live and grow. Leave them be. You can visit them anytime you like. But leave them here.
They are mine to toil over. Not yours to take.
Jodi D. Clark,
Brattleboro, May 5
Reformer.com
Wednesday, May 21
Garden flowers aren't yours for the taking
Editor of the Reformer:
As I type, my anger this year is not nearly as intense or long lasting as it was last year. Last year, my flower thief took my Queen of the Night black tulips. Those are my favorite flowers. The ones taken this year (so far) were two of my white tulips. They were swiped in broad daylight as well. It strikes me as rather bold to take someone's flowers in broad daylight. So I find myself wondering, why my garden and not the surrounding ones? Their tulips are just as tempting, just as colorful, if not more so. Is it that my garden seems more impersonal, not belonging to a person? Is it that it seems that no one lives at this house and the flowers are lonely? Is it that perhaps the flowers are speaking to my thief? Crying out "Please! Take me out of here!" I really must wonder if perhaps my flowers just don't want to be here. Because I certainly want them here, very much. I am greatly saddened again that someone would do this.
And to address my thief directly: Someone does live here who works very hard to make those flowers live and grow. Leave them be. You can visit them anytime you like. But leave them here.
They are mine to toil over. Not yours to take.
Jodi D. Clark,
Brattleboro, May 5