Reading a delightful little book for chapter a day at work. “The Secret Garden”, by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Lots of good stuff in there worth thinking about. Story about a girl, Mary, who goes to live with her depressed uncle in his depressing mansion after her parents die. Mary is the most irritable child in a miserable environment surrounded by miserable people with miserable lives until the garden works its “magic” on her. The quote that stopped me today:
“Of course there must be lots of magic in the world,” he said wisely one day, “but people don’t know what it is or how to make it. Perhaps the beginning is just to say nice things are going to happen until you make them happen. I’m going to try an experiment”. pg 248
“Where you tend a rose, my lad, a thistle cannot grow” 295
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