Grandson or neighbor kid I missed the original post. Funny how the kindness and gentile teaching of others affects your life as you are older. I still remember a neighbor across the street (she had grandkids and I was little) showing me how to plant things and take care of a garden. I think of her every time I plant something
My parents were not gardeners. I loved being able to help her poke seeds and the ground and those turn into plants over the summer and she always cooked me samples of what those seeds grew--I didn't like okra then (do now). She was and is always a huge influence in my life. I'm certain she would like that but she was in her late 70's in the early 1960's. I can't go back and tell her.
I had a teacher after we moved from Wisconsin to Washington there was a "new math" I was befuddled well kids here had it for 3 years... she talked to my Ma kept me after school for a week to teach me then drove me home every day that week graduated at 16 in college and graduated at 19