Saturday, December 27, 2014

Creating a Life of Roses

She sensed I was sinking.  I didn't know I was.
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With time, clarity.
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At the driveway between the Big House where she lived, and the Carriage House where I lived, backed by 50 acres of wood & pasture with horses & dogs & cats, and solitude, she slipped me a volume, 
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A life raft.




Written at Long Barn, above, the home she rented from, Vita Sackville-West, Morrow mentions a moment.  Coming into the room, a climbing rose tendril & bloom had fallen inside the open window.
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In that instant I was crying, heaving cannot breath tears.
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My life was horrible, and no where near having something as beautiful and sweet as a rose blossom falling into my house from the garden.



Jumping forward a decade+, I walked into my home office, upstairs, opened the window, and a climbing rose, dropped tendril & blossom softly onto my desk.
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This rose said, "You've been flying for quite awhile, you grew the wings you needed."   Until that moment, I had forgotten those heaving tears a decade earlier.  New tears, as unexpectedly, with the same heaving force, except I was catching breaths between laughter.
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Jumping forward 2 decades, I'm still in awe of these 2 roses, anchoring a decade, and the start of living.
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Garden & Be Well,    XO Tara
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Pics from Yale library, here.  This is my Janus, January, story, what is yours?
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Of course I read all of Morrow's books after the 1st gift.  Have given them as gifts.  Paying it forward.  Giving it your all?  Not happy?  Buy the book, hit the link.

2 comments:

  1. What am I doing today but reading SISSINGHURST in bed!The new book........almost finished will finish today!Took a break to go out to fetch the mail.......a small envelope addressed to LA CONTESSA and her manly men!Ate lunch and opened my email to THIS!
    HOW GORGEOUS IS THAT!!!!VITA and I are TWINS......almost!She loved every plant I have in my garden.......I'm off course here as we are speaking about ANNE here.............anyway, I will read her book too!THANKS for the OMG Moment!I need more of them..........XOXOX

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  2. What a treat this post was for me! In a glass bookcase in my bedroom are books that I don't lend out. Anne Morrow Lindbergh's are in there, falling apart from the years of reading, The Flower and the Nettle my favorite.

    A wise woman gave you this book, and I love that Lindbergh had such a profound influence on your life. She did on mine also.

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