“How does the yard look?” My father asked, with his eyes shining. I could tell he was eagerly waiting for my 1 “Wonderful!” I replied after I gave it a thorough 2. Then I recited all the changed I had 3in his yard and he smiled contently.

    When I was young, my mother 4in a car accident, leaving my father alone to5their three young daughters. At the beginning, life was not always 6and my younger sisters usually complained. However, Dad always 7us to believe that life was good. Meanwhile, he tried his best to 8that belief.

    In 1972, my dad developed a piece of waste land that had been9on Okaloosa Island. Every year at the first sign of10, he would begin spending countless hours working there to make it be bursting with colors. Through his continuous hard work, the land11turned into a beautiful garden with different types of flowers and other unique plants. While our friends were enjoying their vacation through traveling to different places, we were12working with my dad in his yard, watering the flowers, weeding or cutting off the branches. Sometimes, our friends were envious of our working vacation, and we would 13them. Dad made his yard very14so that it became our vacation paradise during our childhood.

    For so many years, when we were 15, we liked to visit Dad's yard, because it could 16us of Dad's belief. It was Dad and his yard that gave us17that enabled us to survive and18major challenges in life. One day, it shocked us that Dad said he would not 19the yard. Then he explained, “Twenty years ago I decided to start my work in that yard to tell you life is good. Now my work is done.” We were sitting in 20, recalling what we had experienced. Life was good. Dad was right.

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    李绘，字敬文。年六岁，便自愿入学，家人以偶年俗忌，约而弗许。伺其伯姊笔牍之间，而辄窃用。未几遂通《急就章》，内外异之，以为非常儿也。及长，仪貌端伟，神情朗隽。河间邢晏，即绘舅也，与绘清言，叹其高远。每称曰：“若披云雾，如对珠玉，宰相之寄，良在此甥。”

    素长笔札，尤能传受，缉缀词议，简举可观。天平初，世宗用为丞相司马。每朝，文武总集，对策王庭，常令绘先发言端，为群僚之首。音辞辩正，风仪都雅，听者悚然。

    武定初，兼常侍，为聘梁使主。梁武帝曰：“黑獭①若为形容？高相②作何经略？”绘曰：“黑獭游魂关右，人神厌毒，连岁凶灾，百姓怀土。高相奇略不世，觇候敌衅，攻昧取亡，势必不远。”梁武帝曰：“如卿言极佳。”前后行人，皆通启求市，绘独守清尚，梁人重其廉洁。

    使还，拜平南将军、高阳郡内史。郡境旧有猛兽，民常患之。绘欲修槛，遂因斗俱死。咸以为化感所致，皆请申上。绘曰：“猛兽因斗而毙，自是偶然，贪此为功，人将窥我。”竟不听。高祖东巡郡国，在瀛州城西驻马久立，使郎中陈元康慰之曰：“孤在晋，知山东守唯卿一人用意。及入境观风，信如所闻。但善始令终，将位至不次。”河间守崔谋恃其弟暹势，从绘乞麋角鸰羽。绘答书曰：“鸰有六翮飞则冲天麋有四足走便入海下官肤体疏懒手足迟钝不能逐飞追走远事佞人。”是时世宗使暹选司徒长史，暹荐绘，既而不果，咸谓由此书。天保初，为司徒右长史。绘质性方重，未尝希事权势，以此久而屈滞。卒赠南青州刺史，谥曰景。

（出自《北齐书·卷二十九·列传第二十一》）

【注】①黑獭：即宇文泰，字黑獭，鲜卑族，西魏的实际掌权者，亦是北周政权的奠基者。②高相，即高欢，字贺六浑，东魏权臣。齐王朝奠基人，史称齐神武帝。