I love these "small world" connections. (Lake Owasco)
And that you were also a pastry chef, @boxcarblue.
This was the first line I highlighted:

You might be surprised to learn that bakers use a great deal of geometry. We are very good at cutting rolled out croissant dough into perfect triangles of equal size by hand. We can cut any size cake into equal size portions with a few simple circles and circle segments.

And this!

Today, I found myself using the techniques I once used to get the most cookies I could onto a cookie sheet, all spaced correctly so that no cookie touched another cookie as they spread and 'ripened' in the oven, while planning the layout of this year's cucumber bed. I mused about this - when we've learned something really well, the knowledge will come in handy in unexpected places.

Ahhh, the good advice, the kind I need to hear repeatedly:

So don't ever shirk! Do everything with love, intelligence and passion! When you're my age, you'll be glad you did.

I did things with passion, all right, and too much incaution. (Dare I call it fearlessness?)
If I'd taken more time, done more research, learned from others - but nobody else told me not to do the things I did. I'll have to write my own handbook of things NOT to do as a gardner/homesteader.

Your seedlings are amazing!
I will chant with the angels to your sweet potatoes: Grow, grow, grow!
Why shouldn't the angels and saints concern themselves with plant life, too, after all?
Life is life. Life feeds life.
Grow, grow, grow!