Cultivate Your Garden
This week at CLUB #350 I distributed some Holiday Gifts to club members, sets of WHIZ CARDS. Some of the recipients commented, “He’s trying to make us better players.” Why not? It seems to reason that if one is attending a scrabble club, that person would most likely have an interest in becoming a better player by expanding their word knowledge.
I found it interesting that by the time I got to today’s email there was already one comment from one of the players. She pointed out an error on a web site address that I had provided. Then she said that she could not master even a single WHIZ CARD in the set she received. I don’t get that at all. How does someone with the skill to edit, lack memorization skills? Aren’t they one and the same, or at least related skills?
One of my favorite movies of all time is ‘Being Theree’, starring Peter Sellers. In the movie, Sellers plays the role of Chance, a simpleton, who through a strange set of circumstances becomes the confidant and mentor to some of the most powerful leaders and policy setters. Chance, formerly a gardener, calls upon his simple understanding of the cycles in the garden to provide lessons to his new Ivy League friends.
Scrabble too can relate to the cycles in a garden. The soil must be fertile. An action must be taken by the sowing of seeds. A prosperous garden requires tending and weeding. A well tended garden produces blooms or produce. An abandoned garden will go to seed.
How will tend to your scrabble garden today? this week? in 2010?