...love friendship and extended family.
A dear friend recently posted of flowers and memories. I have to say there are many connections with flowers and their scent to certain memories. There is a visual memory linked with the poppy for me. There is such and anticipation for the opening for this interesting bud.
Six simple and fast years ago we did not anticipate what our bud would open into,
we just enjoyed the process of the opening.
....so delicate...
and...
... so strong!
(she is getting the perfect attendance award on the right)
Influenced by the sprinkles of love around her...
...all she ever needs to know in life she just learned in kindergarten.
I would like to take the opportunity now to thank all the members at her school that may see this on what an wonderful job they do.
I would also like to thank all of you, my readers and extended family for your support. I had to sit alone as her family representative for the graduation. There was no other family that could have been with us yesterday. I heard a grandmother complain about "how many of these things do we have to sit through...this is my 7th one" My mother would have loved to have been there. My daughter's paternal grandparents left us before she arrived, but we know she was kissed by her grandma M before the angels sent her to us. I sat and watched the slide show of the school year and tears rolled down my cheeks at the pictures of the kids with there extended families and grandparents. It was lonely at first coming home after with no big celebration, just us. She is not missing it as she knows no different. She is missing her new extended family of kindergartners though. She is learning the power of friendships, I have learned them too. It was wonderful to have the "Flickr tissues" handed to me first thing as I posted pictures yesterday...I can no express how much it means to me that you were there! I will have a special post for you in a little bit but for now would like to leave you with this:
All I Really Need To Know
I Learned In Kindergarten
by Robert Fulghum
All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.
ALL I REALLY NEED TO KNOW about how to live and what to do
and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not
at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the
sandpile at Sunday School. These are the things I learned:
Share everything.
Play fair.
Don't hit people.
Put things back where you found them.
Clean up your own mess.
Don't take things that aren't yours.
Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Wash your hands before you eat.
Flush.
Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you.
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some
and draw and paint and sing and dance and play
and work every day some.
Take a nap every afternoon.
When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic,
hold hands, and stick together.
Be aware of wonder.
Remember the little seed in the styrofoam cup:
The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody
really knows how or why, but we are all like that.
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even
the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die.
So do we.
And then remember the Dick-and-Jane books
and the first word you learned - the biggest
word of all - LOOK.
Everything you need to know is in there somewhere.
The Golden Rule and love and basic sanitation.
Ecology and politics and equality and sane living.
Take any of those items and extrapolate it into
sophisticated adult terms and apply it to your
family life or your work or your government or
your world and it holds true and clear and firm.
Think what a better world it would be if
all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about
three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with
our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments
had a basic policy to always put thing back where
they found them and to clean up their own mess.
And it is still true, no matter how old you
are - when you go out into the world, it is best
to hold hands and stick together.
