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If you must choose
be not the rose
nor the wintering compost
but rather the seed,
the capsule that knows
beginnings and endings
are the sacred vines
which weave immortality.
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(c) 2013, 2018 Betty Hayes Albright
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(a re-post, revised)
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This is amazing!
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Thank you very much!
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Best to be seeds of hope…indeed my friend.
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Ah, yes – you’re so right, Charlie!
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A seed has much life to live🙂
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Yes it does! 🙂 Thank you for reading this.
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Really lovely – and very good advice!
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Thanks very much! 🙂
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Potential. Holding what will be. (K)
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Potential – a profound word. (Maybe I should have made that the title!) Thank you, Kerfe. 🙂
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Lovely message, Betty, and beautifully expressed. Have a good Friday! 💕😊
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Thank you, Lauren! Hope you’re having a good Friday too. 😍🌼
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Beautiful 💜
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Thank you dear Willow! ❤️
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🌹🤗
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Amazing!!
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Thank you, Parnika!
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A beautiful tiny yet enormous idea, Betty.
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Thank you, Ben. 🙂
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Somehow very comforting but with no trace of sentimentality.
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Thank you, I’m glad you found it comforting. 🙂
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Lovely and, yes, quite right: be the seed. x
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Thanks, Val! 🙂
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are there any words/poems you don’t write magnificently??? Cookies and kudos ❤ ❤
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Awww, that’s such a nice thing to say, Kim. Thank you for the cookies! 😍💕
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A lovely poem Betty! Hope you are well.
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Thank you Renee! Hope you also are well and enjoying this beautiful weekend. (It hit 60° yesterday.)
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Not quite as warm here but warmer so I believe the worse of Winter has passed…hopefully! We are looking for another apartment and will be out of her by the end of March…rent increases. But I am well, thank you!
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Glad you’re well, Renee. I also hope that the worst of our winter is behind us. But one never knows around here.
Sorry to hear you have to move. That’s what we were facing in the Seattle area – the rent increases, and unaffordable places to buy. It’s why we ended up down here. Hope you find a new place that you like!
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Nice one.
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Thank you, Bela. 🙂
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This belongs on every teacher’s wall.
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Thank you, Sharon – I’m honored by your comment!
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You unravel and explain here, the essence of nearly everything
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My gratitude for such a nice comment, Candice!
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I love your work – quite simply.
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