Edification of a pioneering botanist in Crete

Historical notes from pioneering botanist

Postcards from Crete. Notes of a pioneering botanist.

Descriptions of Crete through the eyes of a botanist. 

Immersed in Crete comments from a pioneering botanist.

Notes imbued with the passion of Crete, through the eyes of a pioneering botanist.

My final:

Postcards from Crete. Notes of a pioneering botanist.

What was that feeling we had to let go

What was the name of the person we were

What is going so fast that it blurs

What is the colour of the dress we wore

What is the something we want even more

What is the promise we said we would keep

What was the story we saw in our sleep

What is the point I am trying to make

What in the world is it all gonna take?

It will take the time that is blurring by!

The Tie

A man goes into a restaurant and the waitress stops him.

“Sorry sir, you need to wear a tie to enter”.

So the man goes back to his car and looks around, but there’s no necktie to be found. So he takes his jumper cables, wraps them around his neck, ties a nice knot, and lets the ends dangle about.

He goes back to the restaurant, where the waiter says, “Well, OK, you can come in……

….Just don’t start anything.”

An interoffice softball game was held every year between the marketing and support staff of one company.

The support staff whipped the marketing department soundly.

To show just “how” the marketing department earns their keep, they posted this memo on the bulletin board after the game:

“The Marketing Department is pleased to announce that for the 1996 Softball Season, we came in 2nd place, having lost but one game all year. The Support Department, however, had a rather dismal season, as they won only one game.”

I am back in La Crete, things are going well. I started working on a new “logo” and business card design for the store. I have a few ideas, but none stuck in glue yet. I might need to design the business cards first and then a logo later. Seems backward but I am having trouble assessing the essence of LRT that would best represent us.

I am learning to ask for what I want and to tell people how I feel. What a freeing concept, and why was I not able to do this before? I always spoke in riddles and didn’t know what I wanted. I know now, well a few things anyway.

1. I want to take more online training so I can be the best Graphic Designer possible. I asked my most challenging teacher if she knew any other alternatives for online training as I have already taken all of the courses offered by Ai. She is looking into a lead that is offered from Australia of all places. Hopefully they off an undergraduate program that is available online. If not I will keep looking.

2. Is something I want to shout out from the mountains and post on Facebook, but I need permission and to talk to a few people first. And to be honest is something personal that might not be what I think. Or turn out how I hope.

3. This could be the most important of all. I am learning that God really is interested in my life and He is in control of the direction it is taking. He is a gracious and forgiving Lord as well who loves me more than I can love Him. I am ever slipping and sliding, but He is always leading and guiding.

I have goals… I have dreams!  Praise the Lord can this be

I have been trying to figure out what triggered this battle in my mind that resulted in me going back home.

Okay I sat back on this idea, and I know it is all good. I have learned that I have made some really great friends whom I shall remember for a long time. This has been a good experience and I can check off one thing off my bucket list, well the imaginary one in my brain!

The shock of the Japan earthquake & Tsunami remind me once more about why I am going home. I am needed there, my family is important to me and I want to fulfill the role I was born into. The one I resented, but is such a blessing truly.

Why did God choose to make our business so successful? Why did we start it at just the right time? Why did my dad, a farmer, think that this store was needed? Honestly so many stars aligned with this business that it has taken off to the sky with success. People love us, even though we bungle at times and make mistakes.

One company insisted to Telus that they wanted to revamp their whole network of 50+ phones but through US!!! Can we handle it? I sure hope so!

So starting April 1 I will be taking training and getting reworked back into the business. My folks want to retire, and man those are big shoes to fill. Lucky me I have 2 brothers to help do it!!

Anyway, still waiting to see what happens to our world with the reactors in Japan. Scary thought really.

A tough looking group of bikers were riding when they saw a girl about to jump off a bridge, so they stop. The leader, a big burly man, gets off his bike and says, “What are you doing?”

“I’m going to commit a suicide,” she says.

While he did not want to appear insensitive, he didn’t want to miss an opportunity he asked “Well, before you jump, why don’t you give me a kiss?”

So, she does and it was a long, deep lingering kiss. After she’s finished, the biker says, “Wow! That was the best Kiss I have ever had. That’s a real talent you are wasting. You could be famous. Why are you committing suicide?”

“My parents don’t like me dressing like a girl……”

My folks figure the “girl” wouldnt have to commit suicide, “she” was probably killed lol.
This one made me laugh because it took me by surprise.

Perhaps they will have what it takes to shape our future? Perhaps the ones who are missing already know how to do this in Fireworks. I find this Website creation to be interesting. I hesitate to say very interesting as i seem to be fickle about what interests me.

I was told that I have a very low attention span…and looking back at this blog post I am assured that it is extremely possible that it s so. Do I wish to change this about myself? Ah…No…I need this to survive life.

I am listen to everything around me and absorb it through the pores in my mind. Being surrounded by people all the time is exasperating to me. I will enjoy being back in La Crete, where the pace of life is slower.

I will miss the people and the variety of people that I get to meet. I can talk to almost anyone and enjoy their company. I will also miss school a little, but not the stress.

Decisions…no matter what one does there is no avoiding them. Ever going back to work in the store and attempt to “take over” where my dad wishes to leave off will involve decisions. How what when… and back to work for my brothers. I sure hope we can figure out a way to each feel that we are carrying the load together, instead of anyone feeling like they are being short changed or overloaded.

It should be interesting anyway.