“So how exactly will this work?” Maria scanned the detritus left by the fire. Remains of a lifetime of work and investment. Gone. Shards and a handful of charred pots. Is all.
“We start from seed, as it were,” Steve pressed. “We get Dad’s old truck out of the garage. Use it as a wheeled nursery.”
Maria sighed. It could work, but was she even up to it? Where there’s a will there’s a way, Nana had always said, and it matters most where there’s little will with which to find a way.
“A willed nursery…” Maria nodded. “Nana’s way!”
Photo by: © Jan Wayne Fields
Na'ama Yehuda 
Nice!
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Thanks, Trish!
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Where there is a strong will things work out.
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Indeed, or at least a solution can find a way to form a path to something new. I think people get stuck when they expect things to work out the way they were before, or expect things to work out without them needing to put in the work …
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Very true. Adaptability is the key to most of life’s issues
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100% agree!
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A can-do up-and-at-em approach
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Yep! And Dad’s truck ain’t a bad prop, either! 🙂
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As they say, ‘great flowers from little seedlings grow’, or something like that! Great to see you back again Na’ama.
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Thanks, Keith! It’s been a while, eh? Good to ‘see’ you all, too!
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A great seed of an idea. And sometimes just that little hope can go a long way.
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Indeed! Sometimes what we need is the first step out of crisis, and the rest can slowly unwind ahead to show us the way.
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Let’s hope they can live up to Nana’s expectations… and that they have fire insurance.
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Yeah … and a good thought about the fire insurance! 😉
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Lovely approach to a terrible situation, a positive mental attitude 🙂
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Thanks, Iain. Sometimes a positive attitude AND the steps to follow it, are a good way to manage a terrible situation … Oy, eh?
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You won’t succeed if you don’t try. I love the positive attitude here.
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Ain’t that so, Linda!? Being stunned into inaction and too dispirited to start afresh are understandable reactions to crisis, but getting some motion restored usually feels better. Even in a small way. A wheeled nursery can be a start. But a start matters. …
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So lovely to see you again, Na’ama! And with a lovely and inspiring story to boot! Wonderful 🙂
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Thank you, my friend! It’s been a bit of a whirlwind and still is with all manner of things popping up and taking up my time and attention BUT it is lovely to return to this ‘home’ too! XOXO from your NYNF!
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Just glad to have you around. And hope the whirlwind dies down a tad so that you don’t get too dizzy. xoxo my NYNF!
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Yeah, it will. Sort of … I was away overseas teaching and conferencing and consulting and visiting for a few weeks, then came back to jetlag nuttiness in a country gone off the deep end … and summer scheduling which is always all over the place and even more so this year when everyone is finally doing everything they can to HAVE a summer … And now I have commitments for writing (a chapter that’s due for a professional text book by the end of July, and some other stuff along the same lines), and for travel later this summer, and and … BUT, I’m home, and de-jetlagged (for now) and that helps! WordPress here I come! 😉
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Phew! I am out of breath just reading this! Man, my life is dull…
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LOL! I like mine duller, please … 😉
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I hear ya.
I’d like mine to pick it up a notch!
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I’ll send you some Dull-Away right away … 😉
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You’re always so generous
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😀 I mean, I come from love … 😉
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Awww 💞
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A charming take on the prompt, Na’ama. Welcome back.
Much truth to your story of recovery and moving forward. 🙂
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Thank you, Bill! I’m glad you liked it! And … yes, we all need a bit of will to make it out of places of despair.
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🙂
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I like the dual play on the word will. Good message within your story. Nice to see you at FF again, Na’ama.
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Thanks, Li! 🙂 Glad you liked it! Made me chuckle to myself. 😀
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You’re most welcome.
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Na’ama Y’karah,
Baruch Haba’ah! It’s great to have you back in the FFFold! I’ve heard it said that attitude determines altitude. I’d say these folks are bound to fly high. Love the word play in this.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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Thanks, Rochelle! It is nice to be ‘back’ – though not all the weeks I was ‘away’ I was actually away, it did become a stretch of weeks I could not participate in the way I’d have liked to. It’s nice to be back in the sway.
And, yes, I think they’ll do well rebuilding their lives – they got each other, and they got wheels and they got the will! 🙂
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Love this! Never give up. Positivity is the key 🙂
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Thank you, Fleur! Happy you liked it and glad you read and commented. Indeed, positivity keeps the windows open for fresh ideas and possibilities. 🙂
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