Thursday, September 1, 2011

Yellow Rose, Red Rose...Anniversary Treasure in an Off Year

Symbols of Memories...
Is it a song, a photograph, a smell or a place?  What stirs your memories to events wonderful and to events you would rather not remember?  I will speak only of good memories today and small treasures in life in the form of an actual thing and the memory it brings to surface in my thoughts.




While serendipitous events of everyday life may evoke pleasing thoughts of happenings long passed, many of us create small boxes of memory joggers for no reason other than holding our memories and for sharing with others. The dried roses in the photo are one small treasure in this home. At other places in the home are discretely displayed vases of dried roses.  Given to celebrate and remember our wedding anniversary,  each year was marked with an additional fresh yellow rose.  The number was up to over two dozen roses when the cut back happened.

Going into the new year of 2011 my employment was cut away. In a couple of months she lost her job, also.  This was a year for a vase of many roses delivered so she could enjoy the blossoms and opening buds during the work week. She might even receive a kind comment from a coworker.  All of that would bring joy to me.  But not this year...no  roses and no office for delivery.

Look at the vase in the photo.  On the left is one dried red rose and with it one yellow one.  This year, there is a yellow rose for the year and a red one to represent all the years before.  These roses have a home in the vase of roses from an earlier year. Next year should bring a new vase very, very full of yellow roses.  And, there is an office to receive the delivery.


I must pray thanksgiving to our God for the many years and now for her new employment.  By next year, I should be re-employed, one way or the other.  I also thank God for creating such beauty as roses.  These flowers do hold significant places in my memories, whether the yellow one of anniversary or the old Welsh roses from an earlier  post.


What you might have of good memories, what you might have of kindness in your heart relived...I pray those thoughts will come to bring you joy.

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