Reciting the Optimist Creed brings back many great memories from over forty years ago and the Westside Optimist Club here in Springfield. Great friends and memories. It is our memories that propel us. Reminding us of where we have been in the past and what we do today that conveys this highest endeavor we are here to expand on. It’s like trying to pick a line from the Optimist Creed as your favorite that would express how you will live today. But it begins with knowing who you are as the universe and others see you. For myself, seen here as Danny’s Farm and Gardens on one hand, opposite writings expressing my innermost identity, opens my heart and soul/spirit to eternal growth. That it is our connection to nature through our gardens that illustrate our acknowledgment of our role we here to play.
That we are who we are yet to become. What I learned teaching at the university in Qufu years ago, was we teach best by expressing ourselves through the subject we are teaching. What I’ve done through over thirty years of writing and learning who I am yet to become through living experiences in China and here in America. Always seeing myself with a vision of what can be… not what is we see today.
As a city planner and neighborhood specialist before I retired, it was always taking people to places they would otherwise not go but could/would if they developed the tools to do so. Giving others the sense of something mystical as self-expression best expressed as and through nature. When we are on track or in tune with spirit our gardens become our ultimate teachers.
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