You may be thinking about a gift for your loved one for Valentine’s Day, since it’s getting to be last-minute. How about this?
Give your Valentine a locally-grown plant to enjoy for a long time rather than a bouquet of short-lasting flowers which traveled great distances to get here. (80% of the flowers sold in the U.S. come from Colombia and Ecuador.) It’s a loving gift that will last months or years to come, reminding that special someone of your love.
Yes, they’re bothersome sometimes. And some people are allergic to them. But they’re very clean and do us a very sweet service.
Yesterday, while walking my dog, I saw a sad, lonely-looking woman sitting on her front porch. When she raised her head, I smiled. Her face lit up, and she silently smiled at me. It reminded me of today’s Thursday Thought quote:
I don’t have a quote for today’s Thursday Thought, just a musing…something that I’ve been thinking about:
How can it be that someone who marvels and delights in the myriad colors and hues of various flowers don’t have the same attitude toward people?
Just wondering….
It’s tiny, sometimes bubbling up from within us, sometimes called up because we think it would be appropriate. No matter. As today’s Thursday Thought quote illustrates, it has great power.
Last-minute gift idea: Give your Valentine a locally-grown plant to enjoy for a long time rather than a bouquet of short-lasting flowers which traveled great distances to get here. (80% of the flowers sold in the U.S. come from Colombia and Ecuador.) It’s a loving gift that will last months or years to come, reminding that special someone of your love.