Topiary
TOPIARY -- The art of clipping and training woody plants to form geometric shapes or intricate patterns. Box and Myrtle are suitable types.
As we strolled through Epcot's Flower and Garden Festival last week, I noticed many of the topiaries around the park. They were beautifully designed and sculpted. I have seen topiaries before, but never thought of them in the sense of children.
Raising kids can be quite a bit like designing a topiary. You have this vision of a beautifully sculpted finished project. You spend time creating and shaping this work, hoping that the result will be what you see in your mind's eye.
I am a lot like this with my children. I have certain ideals in my own mind of what their finished product could, even should, look like. I believe it is right and good for a parent to shape and mold his/her children into the most beautiful work of art imagined. I know that it must take a lot of time, patience, skill and tender care to mold the topiary into the desired shape. The same can be said of our children. If we invest in the time, patience and tender care, we too can behold a beautifully sculpted being when our work is done.
As we strolled through Epcot's Flower and Garden Festival last week, I noticed many of the topiaries around the park. They were beautifully designed and sculpted. I have seen topiaries before, but never thought of them in the sense of children.
Raising kids can be quite a bit like designing a topiary. You have this vision of a beautifully sculpted finished project. You spend time creating and shaping this work, hoping that the result will be what you see in your mind's eye.
I am a lot like this with my children. I have certain ideals in my own mind of what their finished product could, even should, look like. I believe it is right and good for a parent to shape and mold his/her children into the most beautiful work of art imagined. I know that it must take a lot of time, patience, skill and tender care to mold the topiary into the desired shape. The same can be said of our children. If we invest in the time, patience and tender care, we too can behold a beautifully sculpted being when our work is done.
But one can keep trying!
Malcolm (Comment this)