‘Sharing On’ is Better Than Wasting

In June 2018, I wrote a story for the Community

News titled ‘Freely Given’. It was inspired by having seen near a home in Galston a bucket of flowers with a sign, ‘Free Flowers. Happy Mothers

Day’. Recently, I’ve noticed other free offerings on our roadsides. They’ve included chokos, lemons, Agapanthus plants, firewood and a box of Rosemary pieces and bright pink Pelagonium cuttings. It delights me when people do this! I myself have, at times, put out free potted plants on the roadside and someone always takes them.

Thinking on this topic, we all should see that it’s good to ’Share On’ our excess, or abundance to others and not just waste it. It is great that many give their no longer wanted, good, second-hand clothes to the Salvation Army, St Vinnies, the Op Shop, Clothing Bins or books to the Rotary Book Fair, but really more should consider the excess fruit that there is at this time of year. I’ve recently seen 2 lemon trees with fallen fruit all around them. It saddened and even annoyed me to see waste like this. Now is the time for lemons, mandarins, grapefruit and oranges and many people locally have these trees in their gardens. In past winters, (when we had meetings) our garden club members brought their spare fruit for our Club Trading Table and we often had an abundance to share on, which was great! Really, when we take the time to think further, there’s always more we can do to ‘Do the right thing’, ‘Not be a tosser’ and ‘Clean up Australia’. Following through on ideas like these declutter our homes and gardens and ‘Reduces, Reuses and Recycles’ wisely, and it also shows we care for others in our community.

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