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Thursday, September 8, 2016

FALL IN LOVE

Mary Marcia
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

LINK: http://tellmeastory-marcia.blogspot.com/2016/09/fall-in-love.html

Thoughts of love like falling leaves...

Swirling in the Autumn breeze.

Author: Unknown

Beautiful Memories of Fall

Seasons: Meteorological and Astronomical

LINK: http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/aboutseasons.html

Fall (Autumnal Fall Equinox) begins on September 22, 2016, for countries in the Northern Hemisphere (United States, Canada). In the Southern Hemisphere (parts of South America, parts of Africa, Australia, and Antarctica) it's known as the Spring (vernal) equinox.

LINK: http://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/september-equinox.htm

"The woods are full of fairies;

the sea is full of fish"

the trees are full of golder leave;

let's make an autumn wish."

Author Anonymous

"Come said the wind to
the leaves one day,
Come o're the meadows
and we will play.
Put on your dresses
scarlet and gold,
For summer is gone
and the days grow cold."

Author: A Children's Song of the 1880's

The foliage has been losing its freshness

through the month of August,

and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself

like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty

who has seen one season too many.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."

Albert Camus

falling leaves
hide the path
so quietly

John Bailey, Autumn

a haiku year, 2001

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Mary Marcia

America's STORYTELLER

Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

Monday, May 30, 2016

FRIENDSHIP ROSE

Mary Marcia
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

Link: http://tellmeastory-marcia.blogspot.com/2016/05/friendship-rose.html

Today I'm sharing a blog I first wrote in March 2014.

FRIENDSHIP

Relationship between two people
     affection
        sympathy
           empathy
              honesty
                 compassion
                    understanding
                       fun
                          trust
                             faith
                                love
                                   caring

"But friendship is the breathing rose,

with sweets in every fold."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

(1809-1894)

American physician, poet, professor, lecturer and author.

There is a time when mothers and daughters become friends.

If we try to be friends when our girls are too young, they lose a mother.

Then who will be their mother?

Being a mom is often a thank-less job, but not always.

My daughter, Faith, gave me red carnations for Valentine's Day. They bloomed for 19 days.

This week, Faith gifted me with a beautiful bouquet of flowers that she hand picked from the florist: red, yellow, ivory and lavender roses and a red carnation.

I arranged each flower carefully in two of my favorite blue-and-white vases. I gently touched the precious petals, and drank in their fragrance. I brushed my hand across the rosemary in the pot next to the roses. It's scent lingered on my hands. For one brief moment I forgot about the snow covered ground outside my kitchen window.

"Why beautiful flowers again?" I asked my daughter.

"I just wanted to thank you for taking me to divisional championship swim meets, Mom," said Faith.

Going to swim practice and swim meets is something we always do. It's nothing out of the ordinary.

What's extraordinary is a young woman who brings gifts (purchased with her hard-earned money) to her mom, and to countless others. Only God knows each act of kindness Faith bestows on others. One day He will reward her openly for her acts done in secret.

I'm proud to share that Faith earned medals in every event she swam at division championships. She trains hard every day at swim practice.

I'm even more proud, in a godly way, of the way Faith lives her life in service to others.

Thanks
for
stopping
by!

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back
often,
and
invite
a friend!

Mary Marcia

Mother to Kristin, Benjamin, Sarah & Faith

Grandmother to Joshua, Megan, Emily & Caleb

America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

Link: http://tellmeastory-marcia.blogspot.com/2016/05/friendship-rose.html

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

FRIENDSHIP ROSE

Marcia Norwood
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

http://tellmeastory-marcia.blogspot.com/

"But friendship is the breathing rose,

with sweets in every fold."

Oliver Wendell Holmes

(1809-1894)

American physician, poet, professor, lecturer and author.

This week, Faith gifted me with a beautiful bouquet of flowers that she hand picked from the florist: red, yellow, ivory and lavender roses and a red carnation.

"Why beautiful flowers again?" I asked my daughter.

"I just wanted to thank you for taking me to divisional championship swim meets, Mom," said Faith.

Thanks for stopping by!

Come back often, and invite a friend!

Marcia Norwood
Mother to Kristin, Benjamin, Sarah & Faith
Grandmother to Joshua, Megan, Emily & Caleb
America's STORYTELLER
Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

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Thursday, September 8, 2016

FALL IN LOVE

Swirling in the Autumn breeze.

"Come said the wind to
the leaves one day,
Come o're the meadows
and we will play.
Put on your dresses
scarlet and gold,
For summer is gone
and the days grow cold."

Monday, May 30, 2016

FRIENDSHIP ROSE

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

FRIENDSHIP ROSE

AMERICA'S STORYTELLER, Marcia Norwood

TELL ME A STORY

Thursday, September 8, 2016

FALL IN LOVE

Swirling in the Autumn breeze.

"Come said the wind to the leaves one day, Come o're the meadows and we will play. Put on your dresses scarlet and gold, For summer is gone and the days grow cold."

Monday, May 30, 2016

FRIENDSHIP ROSE

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

FRIENDSHIP ROSE

AMERICA'S STORYTELLER, Marcia Norwood

"Come said the wind to
the leaves one day,
Come o're the meadows
and we will play.
Put on your dresses
scarlet and gold,
For summer is gone
and the days grow cold."