For You, I Wish the Intangible




I see the lights outside eager homes. I hear the music play throughout department store walls and there is an excitement on the children’s faces that remind us another year has passed. It is holiday season once more. A time to celebrate, to express love and kindness… Our country is at war, politicians launch battles against one another, and parents can’t leave children outside to play. These tragedies I speak of do not remove my holiday spirit, they guide it. They give me vision of what I should celebrate, how I should love and what to share. As I inscribe this Wish, I know I could address it to most, for life’s walk challenges us all. It is the holidays. I have been programmed to give you something I can wrap, something with a bow but my heart searches elsewhere. I want to give you love but I do not know how to wrap it. I want to give you respect but could not find a box big enough. I want to give you my trust but I do not think the mail carrier could carry it all… I wish for you those things you can not touch. I wish you freedom from anxieties, loneliness, and pains of the heart. I wish you the miracles gone unseen as roses blossom in backyards, winter becomes spring again and again and the sun rises to warm you each and every morning... If this holiday season I could give you anything I would wrap your fears, your tears and hold them far from your reach. I would give you enough loyalty to erase your betrayals and any sadness… This holiday season I will wrap you a gift, but “I love you” is what I mean to give.

Monday, May 10, 2010

Today's Wish quote

MY LETTER TO ELLIE WHEN I GAVE HER THE PHOTOS OF THE TULIPS FROM MY GARDEN.

Dear Ellie,

I am not sure you if you know the story behind the tulips so I will tell it to you.

Last fall when Barbara called to tell me your cancer was back I went outside and planted 100 tulip bulbs in the ground outside my home. I told Barbara that the spring would eventually come and the tulips would blossom and your mother will be here to see them. The winter came bringing dreadful cold weather, it is amazing that anything can survive beneath the ground. But soon the skies warmed and the ground softened and the first little green bud showed its head followed by others. We waited in anticipation to see what color would dance for us first. I really thought it would be yellow, but being that Barbara is your daughter, the first tulip to blossom was purple. Soon they all opened up and turned my garden into a rainbow of color and love.

These are your Tulips; “Ellie’s Tulips” that will bloom again and again, and I will photograph them to share again and again.

Now we have Barbara’s Roses, and Ellie’s Tulips, how fantastic!

I wish you the most wonderful Mother’s Day ever!!!

Love, Tricia
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