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sparkleflit 76F
5179 posts
7/2/2020 5:23 pm
PINK ROSE-BUD......


Yesterday was Canada Day, which I spent frolicking in the family compound orchard listening to my favourite Viking Metal band while watching grandkids, raccoons and deer dancing....eating good food, greens, potatoes and strawberries from the garden.......a lovely repast......I wore a pink rosebud in my hair to remember my first , a beautiful pink girl.....even her hair was pink.....She was born on July first......I missed the Canada Day parade that year.....I was in labour and the doctor was at the festivities, eating BBQ when someone fetched him........He was very jolly when he helped me give birth, but when he came in the next morning, he was very serious......My baby had a serious heart defect.........Nowadays it's an easy fix......Then, not so much. ........Every Canada Day I wear a pink rose.......

sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
7/2/2020 5:37 pm

 Pink rose-bud day.....


Koffla 68M
12378 posts
7/2/2020 5:49 pm


I cannot imagine what it must be like losing a child. Sorry to hear that.




sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
7/2/2020 8:09 pm
    Quoting Koffla:


    I cannot imagine what it must be like losing a child. Sorry to hear that.


Thank you.....It was a long time ago. For many years, on her birthday, I would put a rose on a piece of driftwood and push it out into the sea at high tide. One year,on July 1st, my teenage son was heading out in his outboard skiff to visit some friends on another island and he thought he saw a baby on some driftwood out in the strait.....He veered over and checked it out and it was one perfect single rose just laying on a piece of driftwood, miles from land.....


Maudie1 74F
8151 posts
7/2/2020 11:13 pm

 Beautiful tribute to your baby daughter.


bondjam33 70M
840 posts
7/3/2020 1:06 pm

 It is beyond anything I know how heartbreaking it must be to lose a child, especially so young. I am so sorry - the pain must still be raw , even after such a long time.


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
7/3/2020 3:42 pm
    Quoting bondjam33:
    It is beyond anything I know how heartbreaking it must be to lose a child, especially so young. I am so sorry - the pain must still be raw , even after such a long time.
The experience of having and losing her was painful, but much love, beauty, adventure and satisfaction in my life has caused a husk to grow around that pain....I have 2 healthy, beautiful children and their children......and I learned a lot from that experience....a lot about seizing the moment and distilling the joy it has to offer......And it probably inspired me to work with young children all my life.......

But every year on her birthday, I remember........


sparkleflit 76F
10271 posts
7/3/2020 3:43 pm
    Quoting Maudie1:
    Beautiful tribute to your baby daughter.




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