Earl Nightingale, the American motivational speaker, told the story of an African farmer who, hearing about the diamonds being discovered in his country, sold his farm and went hunting for the treasure of diamonds. The person purchasing the farm saw something sparkling in the creek one day. The farmer, after a long and fruitless search for diamonds, returned to his farm a broken and poor man. He discovered they were mining diamonds on his farm. The acres of diamonds, the treasure he had been hunting for, was on his own land.

I thought of this story today while working in the garden. I had invited my wife and son to join me, but my wife went to a children’s book fair to find some baby books for her library, and my son was busy cleaning his apartment and doing some artwork on the computer.

It was a beautiful sunny day to be working outside. Mostly I was raking and preparing the soil. When I raked the leaves off the perennial flowers and plants in the garden I discovered some flowers sprouting out of the ground. It is a beautiful sight as these flowers and plants poke their green selves out of the soil.

My wife returned from her hunt for baby books at a fair frustrated, and had to go out to another bookstore to hunt for particular books. My son tired of cleaning his apartment and being inside and eventually decided to walk to a place a ways away to play some pool. I just kept on raking and finding treasures of flowers and plants ready to spring up.

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