President’s Note: October 2020

[caption id="attachment_8158" align="alignright" width="200"] Sarah Beth Cloar, President, WWPR[/caption]

In a recent Marie Kondo exercise to my inbox, I came across a note I’ve had for 10+ years, from a colleague in a past life. It features instructions for cultivating one’s garden of life, found in one of her mother’s books over 100 years old. I loved it then and I love it now because it serves as a good reminder for intentional relationships and purposeful decision making as we all go about this thing called life.

I hope you’re inspired by the note – especially in the season we find ourselves in – and will pass along to your colleagues as well!

Plant four rows of peas: Presence Promptness Preparation Perseverance Next to these, plant three rows of squash: Squash gossip Squash indifference Squash criticism Next, five rows of lettuce: Let us follow guidelines and standards Let us be true to our obligations Let us be faithful to duty Let us be loyal and unselfish Let us respect one another And no garden is complete without turnips: Turn up for meetings Turn up with a smile Turn up with new ideas Turn up with the determination to make everything count for something good and worthwhile.