Wednesday, March 1, 2017

Kindness and Roses

“Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will lead.”
~ Charles M. Schwab

On a recent afternoon, a friend and I were walking through a hotel lobby and we stopped to watch a large floral arrangement being assembled.  This hotel lobby always has a beautiful arrangement of roses in a center table, but I had never seen it changed.  The gentleman from the florist who was putting together the arrangement stopped what he was doing to talk with us.  He told us how many roses are in the gigantic arrangement – always 498, which is the number of rooms in the hotel.  He also showed us how to remove the outside petals of the roses to help the flowers open up.  And then he asked if we wanted a rose.

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