IN MY GARDEN ---------------- In my garden I feel at home as I walk amidst the fragrance and the flowers, for I never feel alone as the Lord sends down his copious showers. I feel his presence there, and the spirit on the wind, for his love is everywhere, and my thoughts keep returning to him. In my garden I have a feeling of contentment and peace, and I cherish the time I spend, for my tranquility continues to increase, and on the Lord I continue to depend. In my garden I do not fear or fret, but I give way to introspect, and the Lord I do not forget, for his laws and ways I do accept. The Wandering Poet: Lee Desper 11-11-08 Here is a link that might be useful: IN MY GARDEN

So happy for you judithn...took me back to when my kids were in college in our city, but living on campus. Sounds like a great conversation, and something she needed to hear, and you were able to do it in such a way that she really listened, and matured enough to apologize. You obviously have a great daughter, there, and now you have practice for when your son leaves home...heh heh!! We Moms have to support one another...our kids are in their early 40's, so a lot of this type of thing is behind us, but there are always things to work out. We do have very thoughtful children now...they just weren't so much at your daughter's age!!

catspa wrote: "The practice the IRS has been trying to forestall is about 501(c)(4) groups ("social welfare" organizations) using a higher percentage of the funds supposedly collected for tax-exempt purposes than is allowed under the law (which limits donations to political candidates, campaigning, or that sort of thing to something less than half -- political activity can be part of a "social welfare" or 501(c)(4) group's activities, in other words, but not the major part). The 501(c)(4)s that proliferated during the Tea Party movement, and after the Citizens United case, have been doing just that, by using vague descriptions, if not outright lies, about their activities (and 501(c)(4) is an advantageous vehicle for them due to donor anonymity -- the Koch brothers love that). 501(c)(3) groups are not allowed to engage in direct political activity at all, but we suffered because of how Form 990 was changed because of 501(c)(4) malfeasance." No, the issue is that the IRS was denying 501(c)(4) applications to conservative groups in a pattern that indicated unfairly targeting them for their political beliefs. If MoveOn.org -- hardly a "social welfare" organization -- can be considered a 501(c)(4) group (George Soros and Peter Lewis love that too), then it is hypocrisy to deny the same right to assemble and advocate to citizens who, though they don't share your political point of view, have every right to express it via the same organizational methods. I am not buying the excuse that the fault was shadiness on the part of the groups themselves when liberal 501(c)(4) application were approved and conservative ones were not. Sorry it made your job harder, but pinning the disingenuity on tea party groups only is disingenuous a disingenuous statement itself. This is the kind of funneling of Justice Department settlements to liberal activist groups that the WSJ link was referring to: http://www.judicialwatch.org/blog/2014/08/doj-give-leftist-groups-cut-b-settlement/ You won't like that source either, but it's the sort of topic that the Democrat-leaning media doesn't report on. Thank goodness for the internet.

Nicholsworth, June and IAT get at least six hours of sun, and this summer in Germany is a hot one and the sun is blazing. I'm amazed how they stand these conditions. I take care of watering them properly and the color of June is really nice and I think the hostas on the sunny side grow much quicker. ConnieMay, I got my IAT from a very good hosta friend who is paying close attention to his streakers and he would not send something that is not worth the money :-) I read that IAT is in a line from Big Daddy, a blue one, so yours might be slowly reverting. That's why I thought in the beginning that it might not stand sun so well, but nevertheless I tried and was rewarded with those great colors. Does yours get much sun? I will have to see what my IAT will be like through the years, normally I don't like streakers too much because of the attention they need to remove reverting eyes. But I fell in love with this one, passion overruled my scepticism...