Here is something from Paul: “We are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a person sees what does he hope for? But if we hope for what we don’t see, then we with patience wait.”
…and we know all things work together for good to them that love God…
Romans 8: 24, 25 ..28
The 2024 blossom on the very large laurel trees is spectacular to see.The smooth, bright green leaves form a fine ring of support for the many upright candles of florets.
Looking under one of these large trees I saw some dandelions and a feather, so here is my vase of flowers with a feather.
fully open,
closed,
ready to fly away.
Laurel flowers
closed at the tip and fully open at the end connected to the plant.
Then the feather.
The way my blogs travel is that I choose a word and follow where it takes me. I haven’t looked at the word feather before, so here are a few sayings:
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Jean Paul Sartre 1905 – 1980 He also said :” Recollection is the only paradise from which we can not be turned out.”
If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck’s back.
Ellen Swallow Richards
Ellen Swallow Richards was the first American woman to obtain a degree in chemistry and the first to apply chemistry to the study of nutrition. She was an industrial and safety engineer and founder of the home economics movement. I guess this quote has a context now. It must have been difficult to be the first in so many areas.
And then something rather sarcastic but by the person the Meadow is named after and very close to the laurels growing tall. This is then followed by something science proved much later on.
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
Flight without feathers is not easy!
Alexander Pope Plautus died 184 BC.He was a Roman comic playwright.
Looking more closely I followed the words blow and end.
I always see a flower’s ending as a seeds’ beginning.
It doesn’t pay to say too much when you are mad enough to choke. For the word that stings the deepest is the word that is never spoke, let the other fellow wrangle till the storm has blown away, then he’ll do a heap of thinking about the things you didn’t say.
Jules Renard
Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Sometimes, things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.
Susanna Kaysen
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.
Orson Wells
I hope all is well. Enjoy this holiday period.
Sandy 🙂