Course Correction

Morning Glory.

I make mistakes. Lots of them. Some worse than others. I made a mistake when I planted the Morning Glory and the Texas Red Honeysuckle too close together on the back fence by the Eve’s Necklace and Mountain Laurel. The Honeysuckle is relatively slow growing and prefers afternoon sun. The former, well its name says it all, likes those morning rays. Plus, it has a growth rate that is stunning in its speed.

For the first time since planting the honeysuckle it has managed to climb the fence and find it’s afternoon sun. Flowers and leaves abound. The nice thing about this is that it faces the pool with its new liner and deck and cover and is good to look at as I float. The morning glory, meanwhile, has covered up the little free-standing trellis I set up for it and has decided to move along the ground. I swear I can hear it grow. I think it’s heading to the bottle tree, which is fine with me. It will look good climbing in amongst the glass, although it also looks good as a ground cover.

Anyway, those are just lessons learned to go with all the other lessons I’ve learned which, when I take inventory, makes me think I might be better off sitting at home because the mistakes and the lessons have piled up to an extraordinary degree. Of course, I shouldn’t beat myself up. All that may be simply a result of living a long life with an interest in self-improvement. And I’m good with that because maybe one day, I’ll get it right.

John W. Wilson is the author of The Long Goodbye: A Caregiver’s Tale