IF YOU HAD A GARDEN, WHAT WOULD YOU GROW? This column is a place for Denver VOICE vendors to respond to questions from fellow vendors, our readers, and staff. RAELENE JOHNSON DENVER VOICE VENDOR I have a very small garden that is about 3’ wide and 10’ long. What I’m most proud of is my organic table grapes. All I did was buy a plant from the Boulder Farmer’s Market. After 3 years, it began growing grapes. Now, the vine is about 13 years old, and it produces lots of grapes every year. I also have a couple of mini rose bushes. Everything else seems to die. I would grow roses, as they’re a sign of spring, and everybody loves roses — especially for Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day. I would also plant corn, as I love corn on the cob. It’s really good. JERRY ROSEN DENVER VOICE VENDOR REA BROWN DENVER VOICE VENDOR This month’s Ask a Vendor question was suggested by Denver VOICE vendor Lando Allen If you would like to help out a specific vendor by donating a few extra dollars, scan the QR code to make a payment through Venmo. Thank you! Please be sure to write your vendor’s name in the comments! If I plant a tree, what would it be? Truthfully, you would think that but would be easy for me, not because I’m greedy, or don’t want to eat, everybody obviously, the on street needs money, so a MONEY TREE is probably if not the first, then in the first three. But that’s a nobrainer, so I guess a brainier answer would be a tree that gives you the capacity to see. IN YOUR OWN WORDS Words from our vendors on their life and times, what they’re thinking and feelings, for their neighbors to know and share. RAELENE JOHNSON DENVER VOICE VENDOR Time Is Flying By WHEN WE WERE YOUNGER, we thought we had all the time in the world, We used to hear people say, “Enjoy your youth, because before you know it, you get old.” Well, it is true. My inner true self, who had been lost to so many years of pain, found that she’s been trapped in an old lady’s body. The aches and pains come on even faster than they did when I was younger. Even today, I can’t believe how fast time is going. We’re already into April, didn’t have much winter to speak of, and here we are in spring. My new puppy is growing so fast – faster than I want her to grow, but that’s part of life. Time is too short to hold on to anger or frustrations over someone’s behavior or something that they said to you, because when you think of all those hurtful things people have said over and over, it keeps that pain alive in yourself! When you let people rent space in your head, that’s time wasted, and thinking about that is not doing any good for you or the person who hurt you. When you dwell on what someone said or did to you, all you end up doing is hurting yourself instead of taking time to treat yourself better or find peace of mind. Life moves too fast to spend it worrying about whether or not people like you. If people don’t like 14 you, so what? Not everybody’s going to like you. Why waste your time on sadness, hurtful things, or people who don’t care about you? There’s always going to be somebody that hates you, and there’s always going to be people that love you. You just have to choose which one is more powerful to you, which one’s going to give you more peace in life. It’s a better use of your time to love yourself enough to attract people who do care about you, because we never know when our last moments on this Earth will be. If you are a younger person reading this, just know that time will always pass, whether you want it to or not, so spend your time with people you enjoy being around and with things that make you happy. Always remember to love yourself first and foremost, truly. Once you love yourself enough to care about yourself, you won’t have so many people wanting to hurt you because you’ll know what real love is when good people show themselves to you. But if you’re in pain all the time, it’s like you have an invisible neon light over your head saying, “I’m here to be used and abused,” and that is a terrible thing to have happen. Enjoy your life, make the most out of it, and don’t let anybody steal your joy, your happiness, your love. Don’t wait until later in life to find self-love, because that would be sad. I know because it happened to me. Today, I truly love myself enough not to waste any more time on things that don’t bring me peace of mind! I pray that everybody spends their time wisely and that no one wastes many years in turmoil or pain! Time is too precious to waste!
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