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Donna says I could use the bamboo metaphor for the upcoming year. I'm about to grow 30m (90 ft) tall!



“It is said that the Chinese Bamboo Tree begins as a nut, a hard nut, about the size of a walnut.  The nut has to be planted in soil and then watered and fertilized every day, every day for 5 years before it finally breaks through the ground.  If at any time the watering or fertilizing process is stopped, the Chinese Bamboo Tree will die in the ground.  But, in that fifth year, the Chinese Bamboo Tree finally breaks through the ground and in six weeks it grows nearly ninety feet tall!  Now, the question is, did it grow ninety feet in six weeks or 5 years….  The answer is obvious — It took five years, five years of watering and fertilizing everyday to make it happen.”  Les Brown

Yes I am a nut. A hard nut. I made this plan in the fall of 2014 and began in 2015. I will be growing like crazy by this fall.

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  1. Kevin Martin28 July 2019 at 14:20

    Nice looking bamboo.

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