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World Food Day 2026⤴

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World Food Day
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Today’s TDC says

Today is World Food Day

The UN have a challenge for people aged 5-19. We might not be, ahem, quite that young, but we can still participate here:

Create a poster that shows what “Innovate today. Nourish tomorrow.” means to you. Show us how innovation – big or small, old or new – can help feed the world, protect the planet, and build a better future for everyone.

Mine’s at the top of the post.

Violets⤴

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Violets
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Violets always remind me of my mother in law Morag. They used to grow all over her garden in Bearsden and her gardener would weed them out. Morag used to save clumps of them from his grasp and give them to me to plant in our garden. I don’t know if the ones we have in our garden nowadays come from those plants or not, but whenever I see them I think of her. They grow in cracks and crevices – hard to notice, yet beautiful when I bend down to look close. I rarely weed them out because they are so pretty.

Violets
Violets flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license

As I sat down to write this post I started to think about other ways that Morag reminds me of a violet. The woman I have known for over 20 years is a very quiet person, quite unassuming – but firm in her opinions – tenacious. A shrinking violet? Maybe, but one should never underestimate the power of quiet faith.

Violets
Violets flickr photo by NomadWarMachine shared under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-SA) license