The Grapevine: "Pass it On"
By Rosalyn Queen on June 03, 2014 from The Grapevine
"Pass It On." Have your heard this phrase? I heard it a while back and never gave much thought to what it meant. Lately it seems to be turning up more frequently and I decided to do some research. I do not have any idea who or where it started but I think it is a great phrase and if you follow it you will be doing a great deed. Pass it on means to return a favor to someone else when you have been gifted with a favor. Most people do this and the receiver never knows who it is that is passing it on. We frequently hear about someone in line at a fast food chain passing it on to the customer following them. There are many ways we can pass it on in our daily lives. Most frequently it will involve cash but there are many other ways you can pass it on without actually spending money. This week why not spend a little time thinking about this and how you can "pass it on." I guarantee you that you will really feel better for having made a little change in someone else's life.
This past week Dave and I spent some time in our garden. I like to work in the garden early in the morning before it gets to hot. I had the task of trying to remove the weeds and I must have pulled a garbage bag full out of our little patch. Dave is really a better gardener than I am and he knows how to do things that I do not, but I watch and learn from him. Our peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, beets, and cucumbers are doing well. The Swiss chard did not come up, we figured that we must have used old seeds so we bought some new seeds and have replanted it. I just cannot imagine summer without fresh chard. I hope this will do better. We have also been planting flowers and they seem to be doing beautiful. You know my favorite flower is the pansy and I have a beautiful basket of pansies growing on my back patio. All different colors and their beautiful little faces wait every morning for their daily drink from me. I am getting anxious for that first zucchini for tiala and that first tomato.
In one of my early columns I told you about my reconnect with Larry Jett, a friend of mine from high school. He was here, last year, visiting his sister Dot Jett Mills and we had a lovely dinner. He lives in California and since he went back we have been corresponding with him. He has been lending some assistance, in the form of ideas and contacts, to my son Mike on his campaign and in doing so thought that our family history might help in his campaigning in the other four counties in this district. Yesterday I received in the mail a family tree that he had researched going back many generations. It was so interesting and he found out things that none of us ever knew. With the little researching I have done on family trees I know what a job this is and I cannot thank Larry enough for doing this for our family. I have tried to help many people find their roots in San Giovanni in Fiore and now this came on; kind of a pass it on thing.
Once again, I give my condolences to the family of Mary Lou Secreto who passed away this week. What a pillar she was, especially in the field of education. Someone said that she had been a teacher for about 48 years. She certainly touched the lives of many students.All four of my children had her for typing and she was Leslies's cheerleading coach. She was a special friend to my two sisters, Joan and Cathy, who were also teachers. The efforts of her teaching career will live on a long time in the lives of her students.
Keep in touch and let me know how the gardens are doing. Remember to "pass it on" this week and until next week "Now You Have Heard It through the Grapevine."
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