Pumpkin Patch

Time to change May plantings in the yard to Fall colors. Mums are the traditional approach … multi-colorful, easy maintenance, and … short lived to the first frost.

Oh, what to do. I have relied on gardening as a relief from COVID-19 and grandson Hayes’ 100% fatal Muscular Dystrophy known as Duchenne. 

Pumpkin patch. I tore out my red Dragon’s Breath that gave basically four months of red color and replaced those spots in the front yard with half a dozen orange pumpkins. Nobody in the neighborhood is doing this practical and affordable yet colorful approach. Looks great. Satisfied. And, yet, what does this have to do with deadly Duchenne?

Out of the box thinking. Do something nobody else is thinking about doing. Come on, researchers in this era of pandemic mitigation, assuredly you can go after Duchenne in a manner that has not been tried before. What is there to lose?

Grandson Hayes is well into star-gazing. He has a profound understanding, at age 5, of the vastness of Space. We talk about it, often.

Is an end or a notable mitigation to Duchenne any more unreachable? Of course, not! It is a matter of intelligent focus and more focus.

Pumpkin patches are fun and a short-term eye candy. Duchenne is a dream killer. Let’s attack the killer with all we have, please!

Kindly,

Papa in Tennessee