A garden is to be a world unto itself, it had better make room for the darker shades of feeling as well as the sunny ones.
“I don't blame my own parents for the way I grew up, as quite often there is little choice in these issues.”
“I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.”