Dear Reader:

Yesterday in the midst of such fun with family dropping in throughout the day…I took advantage of Mollie’s generous offer to run me over to Publix to pick up some items running low in my fridge.

I had also added a reminder to my grocery list to pick up some fresh flowers. For years now when I would go weekly to Publix I always bought fresh flowers… a special treat for myself… it always brightened my week with beauty. I love being surrounded by plants and flowers!!!

The freshly cut roses were on sale… buy one bouquet and get another for half price… so I told Mollie to pick out her favorite … a treat for being so sweet to take me to the store.

And now… after a lifetime of ” digging out of the dirt” -including daily problems , the continuous financial ones, and medical challenges… I find myself, once again, having opportunities to bloom …it is never too late to do so!

Nothing delights me more that filling my ” new” cabinet ( John and Mandy found it left beside the road yesterday ) with flowers in all kinds of changing arrangements. Happiness is…

I had such a fun day yesterday placing beauty all around me… brightening the cloudy… later rainy day …with blooms! Mandy returned again with some new items she had found for the cabinet.

…***Carol Poole said how much she loved the song 🎵 What the World Needs Now is Love Sweet Love 🎶 and immediately after reading the post, pictured highways to country roads ‘ billboards lining our country with those words…so every traveler was reminded that only love can reunite the country.

I came across a Guidepost article…that told the real story behind this 🎵 story.

Hal David created the music melody and lyrics to ” What the World Needs Now” but it didn’t ” come easy.” He discovered to his dismay that after the title line he simply couldn’t figure out how to match any lyrics to the chorus… and ended putting the song aside in despair.

A couple of years later he left his home on Long Island to meet Burt Bacharach in Manhattan to work on another song…when suddenly it hit him … this song was addressed to GOD!!

Immediately he wrote down…. ” Lord, we don’t need another mountain” … and the rest of the lyrics flowed from there.

Dionne Warwick turned the song down ( though later she would sing it often after Jackie DeShannon first sang it… reaching number 7 on the billboard.)

Following the assassination of Robert Kennedy it became recognized as the song of hope for his family and followers returning to the top of the billboards!

“The story behind the story “… in history is always the best one …like Paul Harvey knew!

And a little humor from Libby… fun and true!