tip 3.30 for an attitude adjustment for me: Love changes your heart! ...This salt shaker full of wildflowers is the most loving bunch of flowers I have ever given Susan. She dug these wildflowers out of her grandmother’s yard & planted them around several trees in our yard many years ago. After the trees were cut down, these flowers would appear in our yard every spring. They reminded her of her grandmother & she always wanted me to mow around them until the flowers wilted. For some reason I did not have a good attitude about this & really hated to mow around them. Four years ago today Susan went to the doctor thinking she had gall bladder issues, several days later was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer & my attitude about this changed completely. During the whirlwind of events that occurred shortly after her diagnosis, I went out to mow the yard for the first time that spring. It was very hard to even go outside during this time because I remember not wanting Susan out of my sight because I mistakenly thought that I could protect her by doing & caring for her. I never gave a thought to these flowers that year until I approached a very large area of them near the street where an old dogwood tree had stood. When I saw those flowers, my heart totally shattered. I took my hands off the mower, went inside, found my alone place, & lost it. After my tears were completely drained, I went back outside & mowed around those flowers with the best & most loving attitude that I have ever had. Each year since that day, I have looked forward to those flowers appearing in our yard & to mowing around them. This year I picked a few, put them in an old salt shaker, & put them at her place on the island. She loved it!
Posted on: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 11:33:57 +0000