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Snippets of Inspiration

This morning I was walking along Kalayaan Avenue, engrossed with thoughts of how to give flesh to a project paper due the next day. I have had trouble concentrating with so many disappointing events in and outside the country amidst other concerns. Yet, something caught my eyes cutting through the morass of my musings. I passed through this area so many time and never noticed the green vegetation hanging on the wall. Or, maybe I noticed the potted plants. But, what I didn't noticed were the other plants seemingly similar to the others, yet different. With my myopic eyes I peered closer. What I saw made me smile. There are vegetables planted in containers popularly known as container urban gardening. The space is quiet narrow, yet, whoever planted these vegetables maximimized the small space and made use of urban container gardening technology. I peered at all the green vegetables: alugbati, string beans, kamote tops, pechay, mustard, ampalaya, patola, and malunggay. Some o...