Our spirit grows...

By Vichara


Leo Tolstoy wrote “Flower petals fall when the tree’s fruit starts to grow. All your weaknesses fall away in the same fashion, when your spirit begins to grow inside you.” In my backyard right now the beginnings of plums, apricots, peaches, grapes and figs are starting to form. For most their flowers have already fallen. In the same way, as all of us that share these thoughts and share them with others, have the fruit of our “heart” forming every day. As I spoke about yesterday, being a life gardener, we have this daily task to nourish our garden with compassion, love and patience but we as a group also have this responsibility with each person we met to help each other’s garden as well.

gelid • \JELL-id\ • adjective
: extremely cold : icy

Example Sentence:
The rescue team braved gelid conditions as they searched the mountain for the lost climber.

Did you know?
"Gelid" first appeared in English late in the 16th century, coming to our language from Latin "gelidus," which ultimately derives from the noun "gelu," meaning "frost" or "cold." (Our noun "gelatin," which can refer to an edible jelly that undergoes a cooling process as part of its formation, comes from a related Latin word: "gelare," meaning "to freeze.") "Gelid" is used in English to describe anything of extremely cold temperature (as in "the gelid waters of the Arctic Ocean"), but the word can also be used figuratively to describe a person with a cold demeanor (as in "the criminal's gelid stare").

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