The reason why wild vegetables are more sturdy than cultivated.
Chambry (The Gardener Watering His Vegetables)
Note: The Chambry collection is published in Greek. AI was used to translate the Greek to this text:
Someone approached the gardener who was watering the vegetables and asked him the reason why the wild vegetables were vigorous and sturdy, but the cultivated ones were thin and withered. And he said: “The earth is the mother of the wild ones, but the stepmother of the cultivated ones.” In the same way, children who are raised by a stepmother are not nourished like those who have their own mothers.
How do you think an AI might simplify this fable? Here is one answer, and the illustration above was made from this simplification:
The Gardener and the Two Kinds of Vegetables
Once, a gardener tended his garden with care. A passerby noticed that the wild plants grew strong and green, while the garden plants shriveled and weak. “Why is this?” he asked. “The earth is their true mother,” said the gardener. “But to these others, she is only a stepmother.” So it is with children: those raised by a loving mother flourish, while those left to a stepmother often struggle.
Moral
A true mother’s care makes all the difference.
Perry. #119