Joe, I would like to talk you. I know you are a florist, that you grow flowers, and I grew up on a farm in Wisconsin and I liked growing flowers. I still do. So I would like to have you take a seat in that easy chair while I talk to you. I'm going to say a lot of things to you but it won't be about flowers because you know more that I do about flowers. THAT ISN'T WHAT YOU WANT.

Now as I talk and I can do so COMFORTABLY, I wish that you will LISTEN TO ME COMFORTABLY as I talk about a tomato plant. That is an odd thing to talk about. It makes one CURIOUS. WHY TALK about a tomato plant? One puts a tomato seed in the ground. One can FEEL HOPE that it will grow into a tomato plant that WILL BRING SATISFACTION by the fruit it has. The seed soaks up water, NOT VERY MUCH DIFFICULTY in doing that because of the rains that BRING PEACE AND COMFORT and the joy of growing to flowers and tomatoes. That little seed, Joe, slowly swells, sends out a little rootlet with cilia on it. Now you may not know what cilia are, but cilia are THINGS THAT WORK to help the tomato seed grow, to push up above the ground as a sprouting plant, and YOU CAN LISTEN TO ME, Joe, so I will keep on talking and YOU CAN KEEP ON LISTENING,WONDERING JUST WONDERING WHAT YOU CAN REALLY LEARN, and here is your pencil and your pad but speaking of the tomato plant, it grows so slowly. YOU CANNOT SEE it grow, YOU CANNOT HEAR it grow, but grow it does-the first little leaflike things on the stalk the fine little hairs on the stem, those hairs are on the leaves too like the cilia on the roots, they must make the tomato plant FEEL VERY GOOD, VERY COMFORTABLE if you can think of a plant as feeling and then, YOU CAN'T SEE it growing, YOU CAN'T FEEL it growing but another leaf appears on that little tomato stalk and then another. Maybe, and this is talking like a child, maybe the tomato plant does FEEL COMFORTABLE AND PEACEFUL as it grows. Each day it grows and grows, it's SO COMFORTABLE, Joe, to watch a plant grow and not see its growth NOT FEEL it but just know that ALL IS GETTING BETTER for that ltle tomato plant that is adding yet another leaf and sitll another and a branch and it is GROWING COMFORTABLE in all directions. And soon the tomato plant will have a bud form somewhere, on one branch or another, but it makes no difference because all the branches, the whole tomato plant will soon have those nice little buds -I wonder if the tomato plant can, Joe, FEEL REALLY FEEL A KIND OF COMFORT. You know, Joe, a plant is a wonderful thing, and IT IS SO NICE SO PLEASING just to be able to think about a plant as if it were a man. Would such a plant HAVE NICE FEELINGS, A SENSE OF COMFORT as the tiny little tomatoes begin to form, so tiny, yet so FULL OF PROMISE to GIVE YOU THE DESIRE TO EAT a luscious tomato, sunripened, it's so NICE TO HAVE FOOD IN ONE'S STOMACH, that wonderful feeling a child, a thirsty child, has and can WANT A DRINK Joe, is that the way the tomato plant feels when the rain falls and washes everything so that ALL FEELS WELL (PAUSE) YOU KNOW, Joe,a tomato plant just flourishes each day JUST A DAY AT A TIME. I like to think the tomato plant can know THE FULLNESS OF COMFORT EACH DAY. YOU KNOW , Joe, JUST ONE DAY AT A TIME for the tomato plant. That's the way for all tomato plants. I think a tomato seed is a wonderful thing, THINK, Joe, THINK in that little seed there does SLEEP SO RESTFULLY, SO COMFORTABLY a beautiful plant yet to be grown that will bear such interesting leaves and branches. The leaves, the branches look so beautiful, that beautiful rich color, YOU CAN REALLY FEEL HAPPY looking at a tomato seed, thinking about the wonderful plant it contains ASLEEP, RESTING , COMFORTABLE, Joe.