Longevity
requires a willingness to ‘go the distance’.
The Cape Gooseberry has travelled, over the centuries, from the wilds of the Andes to colonize the world.
Longevity
requires stickability and a willingness to adapt to whatever life throws at you.
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- Stickability
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- Adaptability
Longevity needs a thin skin that understands, and responds to, the changing of the seasons.
Delicate elegant skin
Longevity needs companionship, creativity, determination, and careful crafting.
Physalis, Winter Cherry, a paper collage by Mary Delany. Copyright British Museum. http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pd/m/mary_delany,_winter_cherry.aspx
( Mary Delany had it ‘in spades’ )
Sometimes, longevity requires sheer bloody mindedness, as well as generous good luck, but always, always, longevity requires an open, tender, sweet heart 🙂 ,
Sweet centered physalis with nasturtium and marigold
( and a never-mind attitude to the all-important gritty bits that hitch a ride ).
Happy Anniversary, Mum and Dad, celebrating 67 years together, this February. Longevity, it’s a long road. 😉 Travel well.
Longevity is a long road ( and a long row to hoe ).
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