Avoiding recursion

A year end review, timed so next year's doesn't get this as the first post of 2007.

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An open letter to my paperwhite bulbs

Dear paperwhites,

I, your affectionate gardener, have placed you in a lovely basket with a bountiful quantity of nourishing dirt. The idea was that you, being bulbs, would push your little roots down into the dirt and send your little shoots skyward to flower and make me happy.

However, you appear to be dissatisfied with your basket and dirt. Instead, you have grown your roots without sinking them, pushing you - bulb, shoots, and all - skyward in a mad attempt to escape from your pot.

Is the dirt not dirty enough for you? Are you struck with a streak of non-conformism? Do you long for the fields of Holland, and are trying to get to the window so you can hail a cab to JFK?

I have separated you six into two pots - perhaps you simply need more elbow room. Perhaps one of you is a troublemaker and removing some of the others from your wicked influence will calm the situation. I have also given you some more lovely dirt.

But this is the last of the dirt I have - there is no more. If you reject it again, I do not have any more dirt to give you.

Can we please try to stay in our pots this time?

Lovingly,
Your gardener