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[Marigold, October birth flower from google dot com]

cups of sunlight drink
from the furls of a flower
elixir of love
© gillena cox 2016


First Sunday in October, this month calendar circles: my husband's birthday, my granddaughter's birthday and the festival of Lights - Divali

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...Meanwhile back at school. Petunia, Zinnia, and the three others, sat in the classroom together. Miss Marigold asked for a show of hands, from the group interested in the story of Hansel And Gretel. One little girl from Zinnia’s group...
[excerpt from my new children's book 'Under The Chinaberry Tree' at the publishers Authorhouse; to be released soon]


Revisit
furls of sunlight...
the marigold blossoms
a thank you note
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remembering
our first kiss
scent of bay leaves
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to this humble life ...
the bloom of wildflowers
Sunday morning spell
Sunday Lime #4


Sunday Smiles

[Sunday Smiles courtesy my granddaughter Zuri]


Sundays are always special here at Lunch Break. Today is #04 in the series The Sunday Standard Here's wishing you a happy Sunday email me post a COMMENT or leave a link to your blog at the linky below



Blog hopping today at
Poetry Pantry #322


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my video of choice for today: here Comes the sun

Life

...how easily, we pass into today, a season for which, we have hankered so much in all this time past; and yet, it seems as if the gulf of separation was but a mystical one; like those nights or days when we sleep and awake to the reality of green hills sitting sedately under bice skies, where at intervals chicken hawks, in their ever spread wing span choreography, dot the vast blue above, to the refrains of fellow feathered ones, who chant the song of kiskadee; today's reality is life, a gift a precious merit, today

Today's haibun is dedicated to my husband Anthony Cox

Hoarding Chocolates - 3

internet image from...



"Its sleeting here in New Hampshire now. It snowed all yesterday and overnight. Work was canceled, and if I'm lucky, I'll be able to shovel my way out in a day or two! Wish me luck!"

hot chocolate
marshmallows bump
my nose
--Diane







Scientists have discovered that chocolate was invented at least 3,100 years ago in Central America and not as the sweet treat people now crave, but as a celebratory beer-like beverage and status symbol. Researchers identified residue of a chemical compound that comes exclusively from the cacao plant - the source of chocolate - in pottery vessels dating from about 1100 BC in Puerto Escondido, Honduras.
Read more here...


this one's for Anthony Cox, my husband; revisit Anthony

buds on the rose bush-
when we danced to the music
of 'Hot Chocolate'
--gillena cox

Listen to 'You Sexy Thing' by Hot Chocolate







chocolates
cached in her bookcase
romance novels
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October cheer

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The language of flowers developed during the highly conservative period of the Victorian era. The Victorians were strongly restricted by the rules of etiquette when it was considered totally inappropriate to express feelings of love or affection. The "Language of Flowers" therefore evolved when a message was assigned to specific flower such as the Calendula (Marigold). A lover could then send flowers which conveyed a hidden romantic meaning.

The hidden message of the Birth Flower, the Calendula, so favored during the Victorian era was "My thoughts are with you".

language of flowers from...


remembering
our first kiss
scent of bay leaves
--gillena cox

My husband's birthday is October 16th; i'm publicly wishing my husband, Anthony Cox, all God's blessings; as he curves into his 62nd birthday