When the weather turns colder and the snow starts to come down, I hold onto thoughts of the Philadelphia Flower Show in March and tell myself I can survive another winter. Kind of like the young artist in O. Henry’s The Last Leaf. As I looked through photos of last year’s flowers, this one caught my eye. You may wonder why since the last thing it screams is “Spring!” and yet I thought, this is a plant that says “I’m not what you expect!” Some people are like that also, all prickly and gruff on the outside, but with souls as pretty as that flower once you get to know them. Anyway, have a great Thursday!
#WriteWed – A Room Without Books
I can’t imagine a room without books maybe because books have been an integral part of my life for so long. From the moment I learned to read, I always had a book in my hands. Books helped me escape to new worlds and learn so many interesting things. My husband teases me about all the little tidbits and facts that I know and whenever he asks me how I knew it, I say, “I read it in a book!”
For that reason, this quote from Roman philosopher Cicero struck me as being all too true. I know that without books I’d lose a little bit of my soul. How about you?
