With the warmish weather, i've been dying for pansies, which won't be on sale until mid-April. However, i did find primroses at the garden store. I bought four, which i grouped together in a pot on the front step. What a nice bit of cheery color to greet me every time i leave or return home.
By putting them in a flowerpot, i can bring them indoors on the freezing nights we are having and take them outdoors again during the day.
Primroses may look prim. Perhaps we feel a bit prim when we stick to the 5th precept of refraining from intoxicants while, all around us, friends are drinking their wine or beer.
So here's my question: what's the difference between being a prude and being prudent?
Though others may judge us as prim and prudish when we politely refuse alcohol. "Oh, i'll have a glass of fizzy water, please." Perhaps we are simply being prudent.
Or could we say that alcohol leads us down the primrose path?
Monday, March 21, 2016
Primroses on the Front Step
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