By Jeanetta Darley

There is beauty in imperfection

. . . in the unique

. . . and in the awkward.

As you walk through a garden you see vegetables and fruits that would never make it to the pristine and homogenized shelves of the grocery store.  Their unusual shapes or blemished exteriors might not win the blue ribbons for shape and form unless it’s for their oddities.  Sometimes people are a lot like the gatherings in a garden.

Sometimes we may seem garish or show too many scars.

Sometimes we may seem a bit unbalanced.

Sometimes we are going in a lot of different directions.

Sometimes it’s worrying about being to0 awkward or not fitting in that can put us in knots.

But if we can embrace our own eccentricities, we realize our differences make us special.

And when we learn to appreciate and celebrate the differences in others, we find out that we are all just one big garden growing together.