Henry David Thoreau once felt " What we need is not the familiar but the power to realize that the familiar becomes unfamiliar once we really look at it."
I wander around my yard and garden every evening. I mow the lawn every week. I trim the bushes and pull weeds now and then. So I thought I had known my yard and garden very well. Then, the other day, I took a real look at every part of them, I realized how much I had missed. The familiar suddenly became unfamiliar, and some caught me in surprise, the new growth, the unnoticed, the missed, the neglected, the ever changed, .................. .
Yeh Tze
(Originally posted in NTUMC68 class website, July 31, 2008)
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