tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-333081142024-03-13T10:20:33.552-07:00Magic Flowersvalwebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15562991944817018420noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33308114.post-1156466169441317142006-08-24T17:34:00.000-07:002007-06-10T09:42:45.544-07:00Magic Flowers<a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Owner/My%20Documents/valweb2/My%20Webs/valweb/edith/chevalier_quilts.htm"><span style="color:#ffff00;">Edith's</span></a><span style="color:#ffffff;"> (NJ) Magic Flowers<br /></span><span style="color:#ff0000;">(plus)</span><span style="color:#33ccff;"> </span><a href="file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Owner/My%20Documents/valweb2/My%20Webs/valweb/LuciButler/index.htm"><span style="color:#33ccff;">Luci's</span></a><span style="color:#ffffff;"> (Georgia) watercolor of Tulips<br /></span><span style="color:#ff0000;">(plus)</span> <span style="color:#ffffff;">Helen's Mountain</span><br /><a href="http://www.valweb.org/Helensmountain/myalbum.html"><span style="color:#99ff99;">The Blue Ball Pipe, Malvern Hills, Hororata, New Zealand</span></a><span style="color:#99ff99;"><br /></span><span style="color:#ff0000;">(plus)</span> <span style="color:#ffffff;">(Florida) Anita's</span><a href="http://www.valweb.org/lettersfromHelen/daffodil_principle.htm"><span style="color:#ffff99;">Daffodil Principle</span></a><br /><span style="color:#ff0000;">(plus)<br /></span><a href="http://www.valweb.org/NewsLetter/new/pasqualina_azzarello.htm"><span style="color:#ff6600;">Pasqualina Azzarella</span></a><span style="color:#ff6600;">, NY</span><br /><span style="color:#ffffcc;">New York Times story, "Tulips and 2 by 4s"<br />How the creative process has flowed through my life recently via computer influence!<br />Edith (Old Bridge, born in Trinidad) told me to write this down.<br />I have been writing it down.<br />It is all in pieces on the web site.<br />So, now thanks to Edith's nudge, I will try and move it all together, slipping the pieces into place to illustrate the converging currents flowing through my days.<br />Not so long ago, my former husband (20 sum years and 4 children, almost bled to death.)<br /><br />This is opportunity that calls for a gesture.<br />So, off I went to Edith's garden for some especially magic flowers.<br />Edith, and I following, carefully filling a vase with Coxcomb, Yarro, Marigolds, Mountain Mint, Lavender and Zebra Grass.<br />Then, off to the hospital.<br />Park,<br />get out..<br />feeling very beautiful getting out,<br />carrying the flowers.<br />Entering the hospital and up elevators and down halls, with necks turning<br />and people's eyes opening wide<br />as these flowers are "different".<br /><br />So flowers are on my mind.<br />That same day my friend Luci called me to complain that I had made a mistake and put her image of a watercolor of Tulips into a story about Daffodils.<br />Would I please remove it promptly!<br />So, I am talking with Luci (who is calling me from Georgia) on the phone<br />(Luci will be 90)<br />As I am talking to her on the phone, I am deftly removing Luci's Tulips,<br />leaving the web page about the Daffodil Story plain and blank.<br />Sigh...I like flowers, but their names don't stick too firmly in my head<br />..a Rose is a Rose is a Daffodil is a Tulip...whatever!<br />So, in the back of my mind is a color depleted web page with a great story.<br />That is about when my conscience kicks in.<br />Somewhere after August 6th, Pasqualina Azzarella e mailed me a story<br />about her own activities, titled "Tulips and 2 by 4s" that appeared in the<br />New York Times.<br />So, here it is August 21, and I have still not done anything past reading the<br />title, which I thought cried out to be used.<br />but now Luci's phone call had created a vacum in an opportune place.<br />I sat at my computer and began in the next thirty minutes to read the NY<br />Times story and discover its power and relevance.<br />Within those 30 minutes I created web pages to cover the story complete<br />with a little slide show.<br />Feeling now a sense of satisfaction at sewing these disparate elements together.<br />Thinking globally, working locally with whatever comes my way! </span>valwebhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15562991944817018420noreply@blogger.com0