And let your garden grow.

Long Distance caregivers often spend years traveling back and forth trying to integrate caregiving tasks with other aspects of life.  There are good times and bad.  And sometimes, it is necessary, for sanity sake, to find relief.

At the end of the adventures of Candide,  Candide learns that in this  "best of all possible worlds,"  we "must cultivate our gardens."  Over the many years of my own caregiving experiences, I took the message of this wonderful book to heart and ten years ago, began my own garden adventure.  I hope you enjoy the attached story which gives background on the photo below.

Voltaire was 65 when he wrote Candide. The date was 1759. The bibliographic note by Charles Edmund Merrill, Jr in the beautiful 1929 Random House Edition comments that Voltaire "found his solution (to the vanity of human wishes) in rational acquiescence in the conditions of the present life and an acceptance of its obligations."