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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!

Come
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

Saturday, October 5, 2013

WELCOME TO MY GARDEN

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

Click on each photograph to enlarge.

Welcome to my garden.

"A garden is a friend
you can visit any time."

Come.....walk with me.

It rained last night,

and everything is green.

"Weather means more

when you have a garden.

There's nothing

like listening to a shower,

and thinking how it is soaking in

around your green beans."

Marcelene Cox, American Writer

It's a beautiful day to walk

in the garden.

I put out the fall garden flag...

and the scarecrow...

...and the metal pumpkin.

The the temp is a cool 56 degrees.

The sky is blue.

The sunflowers

are bright golden yellow.

The chrysanthemums

are a brilliant red and yellow.

"Friends are flowers in life's garden."

The silver Dusty Miller and

Chrysanthemums

planted in containers come back

year after year,

and bloom until the first snow.

"In friendship's fragrant garden,

There are flowers of every hue,

Each with its own fair beauty

And its gift of joy for you."

"The Amen! of Nature is always a flower."

Oliver Wendell Holmes
(1809-1894) American physician, poet, professor, lecturer and author.
Regarded by his peers as one of the best writers of the 19th century.

"All gardeners live in beautiful places,

because they make them so."

Joseph Jouber
(1754-1824) French Moralist and Essayist

"Opportunity is missed by most people,

because it is dressed in overalls,

and looks like work."

Thomas A. Edison

(1847-1931)

American inventor and businessman.
He developed the phonograph, motion picture camera,
long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
One of the first inventors to apply the principles of mass production
and large-scale teamwork to the process of invention.

The little ornamental tree in the front yard

was just a twig when I planted it.

Now it's taller than I am,

and filled with crabapples.

"Friendship is a sheltering tree."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(1772-1834) English poet, literary critic and philosopher.

Co-founder (with his friend William Wordsworth) of the Romantic Movement in England.

I love the scent of ROSEMARY so much
that I brush my hand over it
each time I pass by.

"Where Rosemary flourished,
the woman ruled."
Unknown

"It is a golden maxim

to cultivate the garden for the nose,

and the eyes will take care of themselves."

Robert Lewis Stevenson

(1850-1894) Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer.

His most famous works are: Treasure Island,

Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

"As for rosemary,

I let it run all over my garden walls,

not only because my bees love it,

but because it is the herb

sacred to remembrance

and to friendship..."

Sir Thomas More

(1378-1535) British writer, statesman and philosopher

"Go often to the house of a friend;

for weeds soon choke up the unused path."
Swedish Proverb

"I am writing in the garden.

To write as one should of a garden

one must write not outside it,

or merely somewhere near it,

but in the garden."

Frances Hodgson Burnett

(1849-1924) English-American playwright and author.

She is best know for her children's stories: Little Lord Fauntleroy (1885-86),

A Little Princess (1905), and The Secret Garden (1911).

"Come

and visit me

sometime.

My flowers

would like to

meet you. "

Thanks for stopping by!

Come back often, and bring a friend!

Marcia Norwood

America's STORYTELLER

Telling Untold Stories in Photographs, Prose and Public Speaking

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Monday, May 30, 2016

FRIENDSHIP ROSE

Wednesday, March 5, 2014

FRIENDSHIP ROSE

Saturday, October 5, 2013

WELCOME TO MY GARDEN

AMERICA'S STORYTELLER, Marcia Norwood