Giving away flowers
One week ago today I had a bucket full of flowers in my kitchen. They were the remnants of the portrait session. Flowers are beautiful, even sitting in a bucket of water. I loved having them there. But there were so many flowers that I knew I needed to share them rather than keeping them all for myself. I selected a few and put them in a vase for me to enjoy. I took a few more and put them in a vase in my girls’ room. A third batch went to Janci who went with me for the portrait session. The last of the daffodils went into a vase in my bathroom. I still had far too many flowers. I pulled out three mason jars and divided the remaining flowers between them. Then all that was left to do was decide who I should give the flowers to.
I looked at those three jars of flowers and pondered all the people in my life I might want to thank. I very quickly realized that I simply didn’t have enough flowers to thank them all. I eventually decided to give flowers to two women whom I suspect have been having a hard time lately. I’m not sure that they are because we don’t talk that much, but even if they aren’t they would be made happier by a gift of flowers. The third jar went to Kiki’s friend because Kiki really wanted the chance to give flowers to a friend.
All this past week I’ve been loving having cut flowers in the house. It makes me want to grow millions of flowers so that I can always have flowers in my house. Also giving flowers away was so much fun, that I want to do it again. I want to grow millions of flowers so that I can cut them and give them away as the mood strikes me. There are so many women nearby who could use a gift of flowers.
Today I looked at my vase of flowers and realized that half of them have wilted. The other half were still beautiful. I thought of a neighbor I saw walking down the street yesterday. She was wiping her eyes when I saw her. I don’t know if it was an allergy or if she was crying. I thought of this neighbor and realized that she is one of those wonderful quiet people who go through life doing good things and never getting thanked. I took the flowers that were still beautiful and put them in a jar. I added a few of the early daffodils from my yard and a stalk of hyacinths. I wrote her a note and delivered it all to her house. I’ll miss having the flowers here, but she’ll love having them there.
I want to have more flowers so I can give them away.