I hope I will keep my interest on Orchids to old age.
One of my young (he was older) friends who could not go above grade 10 in Education could keep an orchid my father gave him for over 60 years.
My father taught him how to care for it.
It is called the Wesak Orchid.
He is almost blind and when I visited him with a little gift, I collected few of the saplings (is it the correct word) or buds for our rooftop garden.
They are growing nicely.
My friend was an expert on making kites.
I leaned how to make a kite and balance it (it is a science) aerodynamically.
He did not understand the physics (which I could) of it and I graduated to become a scientific thinker (prefer to become a scientific philosopher) but he remained a faithful environmentalist.
I think we need lot of his kind of dedication and less of my kind probing.
