I Am So Lucky
The 4th of July falls on a Friday this year, which means I’m in luck. Chris buys me a TGIF bouquet of flowers every week at Jamie’s shop in downtown Mount Shasta. For special holidays like the Fourth of July, she makes a trip to the San Francisco Flower Mart to get the wondrous exotic blossoms. Everybody wants flowers from Jamie. Her sense of how colors and shapes fit different personalities is uncanny. Plus, it’s really fun to go in Petals, because, you get to visit with her two-year-old daughter, Sophia—if it’s not nap-time, that is.
Sophia’s her own little character. As soon as she learned to walk, cowgirl boots became the most important thing in her universe. Now, she’s more sophisticated—likes bracelets and necklaces. Plus she’s quite the little expert on commerce. You give Sophia the money which immediately gets passed to mommy, then you get the flowers. Jamie’s daughter often looks like a little flower, herself, sitting amidst the greenery and blossoms. All this early socialization and exposure to beauty will shape her personality in wondrous ways, I imagine.
Socially skilled people seem to be more positive about life in general and better communicators to boot. In our brave new twenty-first century world, communication is everything, but we have very little time for keeping in touch with friends and family (Hint Hint Hint).
OK. What I’m going to say now is top secret. Chris won’t be able to read the fine print because he refuses to wear his glasses. I’m going to take a picture of the flowers he gave me and have the Great Printer make a card—a Send Out Thank-You Card. Jamie of Petals Flower Shop should have one too. Sophia gets one of herself.
If you don’t want to be left out, I’ll make a sendoutcard using your own personal photo. Just email me one, and I’ll have the beneficent Great Printer in Salt Lake City send it to you as a gift.