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<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid">I guess we need to get going on our garden.<BR><BR>
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<DIV align=center><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><FONT size=5><STRONG> The Daffodil Principle</STRONG></FONT><BR>by Jaroldeen Asplund Edwards</FONT></DIV></TD></TR>
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<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Several times my daughter, Julie, had telephoned to say, "Mom, you must come see the daffodils before they are over." I wanted to go, but it was a two-hour drive from my place by the beach to her lakeside mountain home. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"I will come next Tuesday," I promised, a little reluctantly, on her third call. The next Tuesday dawned cold and rainy. Still, I had promised, and so I got in the car and began the long, tedious drive. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">When I finally walked into Julie's house and hugged and greeted my grandchildren, I said, "Forget the daffodils,20Julie! The road is invisible in the clouds and fog, and there is nothing in the world except you and the children that I want to see bad enough to drive another inch!" </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">My daughter smiled calmly, "We drive in this all the time, Mom." </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"Well, you won't get me back on the road until it clears and then I'm heading straight for home!" I said, rather emphatically. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"Gee, Mom, I was hoping you'd take me over to the garage to pick up my car," Julie said with a forlorn look in her eyes. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"How far will we have to drive?" </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Smiling she answered, "Just a few blocks, I'll drive ... I'm used to this." </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">After several minutes on the cold, foggy road, I had to ask "Where are we going? This isn't the way to the garage!" </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"We're going to the garage the long way," Julie smiled, "by way of the daffodils." </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"Julie," I said sternly, "please turn around." </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"It's all right, Mom, I promise, you will never forgive yourself if you miss this exp erience." </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">After about twenty minutes we turned onto a small gravel road and I saw a small church. On the far side of the church I saw a hand-lettered sign ... </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"Daffodil Garden" </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We got out of the car and each took a child's hand, and I followed Julie down the path. As we turned a corner of the path, and I looked up and gasped. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Before me lay the most glorious sight. It looked as though someone had taken a great vat of gold and poured it down over the mountain peak and slopes. The flowers were planted in majestic, swirling patterns, great ribbons and swaths of deep orange, white, lemon yellow, salmon pink, saffron, and butter yellow. Each different-colored variety was planted as a group so that it swirled and flowed like its own river with its own unique hue. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Five acres of the most beautiful flowers I had ever seen! </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"Who planted all these?" I asked Julie. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"It's just one woman," Julie answered, "She lives on the property. That's her home," and she pointed to a well-kept A-frame house that looked small and modest in the midst of all that glory. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">We walked up to the house and on the little patio we saw a poster ... </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Answers to the Questions I Know You Are Asking </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">50,000 bulbs<BR>one at a time<BR>by one woman<BR>2 hands, 2 feet<BR>and very little brain<BR>Began in 1958 </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">There it was ... "The Daffodil Principle" </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">For me that moment was a life-changing experience. I thought of this woman whom I had never met, who, more than thirty-five years before, had begun - one bulb at a time - to bring her vision of beauty and joy to an obscure mountain top. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Still, this unknown, old woman had forever changed the world in which she lived. She had created something of magnificent beauty, and inspiration. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The principle her daffodil garden taught is one of the greatest principles of celebration: </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">learning to move toward our goals and desires one step at a time, (often just one baby-step at a time) learning to love the doing, learning to use the accumulation of time When we multiply tiny pieces of time with small increments of daily effort, we too will find we can accomplish magnificent things. We can change the world. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">"It makes me sad in a way," I admitted to Julie, "What might I have accomplished if I had thought of a wonderful goal thirty-five years ago and had worked away at it 'one bulb at a time' through all those years. Just think what I might have been able to achieve!" </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">My daughter summed up the message of the day in her direct way, "Start tomorrow, Mom," she said, "It's so pointless to think of the lost hours of our yesterdays. The way to make learning a lesson a celebration instead of a cause for regret is to only ask ... " </FONT><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><STRONG>"How can I put this to use today?"</STRONG> </FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">~</FONT><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Jaroldeen Asplund Edwards, Author <BR></FONT><A href="http://list.netatlantic.com/t/43961287/82225364/108511/0/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">http://atthewell.com/daffodils/</FONT></A></DIV></TD></TR>
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<DIV align=left><FONT face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">The story of "The Daffodil Principle" originally appeared nearly ten years ago in Jaroldeen Edwards' book Celebration! It is now availa ble for the first time as an illustrated gift book, with artwork by Anne Marie Oborn. You can find the gift book here - <A href="http://list.netatlantic.com/t/43961287/82225364/108512/0/" target=_blank rel=nofollow><FONT size=2>http://www.bookfinder4u.com/detail/1590382242.html</FONT></A></FONT></DIV></TD></TR>
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