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> > Observe Momma Nature. Closely. She does not take sides.
> 
> 
> Says who?



I once wrote a bit in twelve parts on what cosmic lessons the garden had 
taught me with each part about a perticular vegetable.  The overall tie-in 
was 
exactly what Gene has expressed, Nature is no respecter of persons.  As has 
been 
experessed in other holy writs, "... maketh the sun to shine on the good and 
evil, and sendeth the rain to the just and the unjust..."

Taking a lesson directly from Nature, bypassing all the human generated hype, 
if I see a cabbage growing in someone's garden, I can in no wise tell whether 
the person was fat or thin, old or young, male or female, nor what their 
nationality, religion, language, or sexual orientation.  My conclusion then 
must 
be that Nature doesn't care either. She is completely neutral on those 
subjects.

Nor can I tell whether the gardener is wise or foolish ... but the odds are 
for the former.  Maybe that's what Nature favors.

Do you recall a song a couple of decades back by a group called Mr. Mister, a 
song called "Kyrie Eleison"?  The ecclesiastical types will say that the 
phrase measn "Lord, have mercy"  but the Greek more accurately says "Lord, 
favor 
(me)".  That, says I, is the most we can expect from Nature.

James   </HTML>