Happiness Held is the Seed; Happiness Shared is the Flower

**Giving back to others ( people and plants) is always the secret** **of life!**

Dear Reader!

It is a little after 7 PM and I purposefully waited to write this post, until a flower selection and arrangement had filled two planters skillfully …filled one indoor planter … and one planter that will stay outside once we get closer to warm days and above freezing temps at night!

Susan Swicegood had planned to come get me and let me select the flowers I would like to see in the two planters. But with health issues attacking her husband… instead Susan picked quite a diversity of colorful flowers and she and Mandy worked together like Pro’s!

With an exception of a good weather day scattered around… winter in the Lowcountry still prevails…

Susan selected transitional flowers, plants… like Cabbages! So beautiful and then lots of bulbs with hosts of diversified bright spring colors.

We spread old used newspapers on the floors and it worked fantastically! Minimum clean-up!

Susan said she would make me a list of all the flowers inserted in both planters…. ( will share with you tomorrow!) will blow your mind!

The best God Wink to happen was Mandy arriving at the perfect time….she quickly turned her attention to helping Susan – /Divine Timing!

The Christmas Holiday Planter Susan made me brought so much joy in my life that there is no doubt … this early revised Spring planter will carry on my joy!!!

The indoor holiday planter… replenished for late winter: early spring!

**Love Cabbages this time of year in planters**

Flowers ( for me) bring instant joy, an immediate uplift in my day… a promise of hope and instant beauty!

Thank you Susan for sharing your God-given talents and God for Divine Timing… Mandy to assist! 🙏🏻

The rains held off today but it was cold, blustery and just plain cold… so glad we could work inside!!!

The winds, rain are howling tonight … but we are all so fortunate and blessed to have a roof over our heads! And both containers ( plant) are snug and happy too!

Look at this beautiful long shawl from Kaitlyn… my favorite color is always orange and now…a new lucky token for Fall Saturdays!

*** Proud grandmother too!

What a weekend for Jake-recognized at school last Friday for school scholarship and now holding the biggest bass/largest fish caught in his fishing career Saturday! Keep this roll going Jake! So proud!

About Becky Dingle

I was born a Tarheel but ended up a Sandlapper. My grandparents were cotton farmers in Laurens, South Carolina and it was in my grandmother’s house that my love of storytelling began beside an old Franklin stove. When I graduated from Laurens High School, I attended Erskine College (Due West of what?) and would later get my Masters Degree in Education/Social Studies from Charleston Southern. I am presently an adjunct professor/clinical supervisor at CSU and have also taught at the College of Charleston. For 28 years I taught Social Studies through storytelling. My philosophy matched Rudyard Kipling’s quote: “If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.” Today I still spread this message through workshops and presentations throughout the state. The secret of success in teaching social studies is always in the story. I want to keep learning and being surprised by life…it is the greatest teacher. Like Kermit said, “When you’re green you grow, when you’re ripe you rot.”

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