Bottles old and new call to me. I love their shiny shapes filled with flowers or not. For the Women's Group ladies this morning, I loaded up a tray with freshly baked sour cream pecan coffee cake and a pretty pink tulip in a tiny bottle. I left the tulip there and, back home, found myself missing the pop of pleasance it added to this winter Tuesday. The sight of something that makes us smile — that makes us pause in awe, if only for a moment — uplifts! When I later discovered this tulip drooping over the side of its pot from a broken stem, I didn't hesitate. Snip!
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet
