tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29195570.post492997570629096608..comments2023-06-30T06:28:00.114-06:00Comments on Moonflower Musing: Never Mind the WindJulia Kellyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03577906856043143102noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29195570.post-11898444281500470762007-07-21T15:31:00.000-06:002007-07-21T15:31:00.000-06:00As, I read your wonderful story about the beautifu...As, I read your wonderful story about the beautiful "Vases of Love", I couldn't help but see the loving care of the women of my own family, in our home town, where our roots run very deep. Your story is one of the most beautiful children's stories, I have ever read. I can just see how you would illustrate it: "first the peony, then the daisies"... <BR/>Your story teaches love, honor, respect and care and so much more. It is just wonderful!<BR/><BR/>It is not too late for anyone to start this tradition, even with their great grandchildren.<BR/>I still remember the day, when only seven years old, and not yet understanding generations and relationships, that my Mother felt was so very important, when she gently and quietly held my hand and led me, to the side of my Great Grandmother, in front of the old fireplace, in the living room, that had heard so much laughter and music for years, but where my Great Grandmother was then "lain out" and said to me, in a soft, loving voice of awe , that I will never forget, "THIS is MY Grandmother."( I knew MY Grandmother, but THIS was MY MOTHER'S, Grandmother.) Now, at sixty years old that means so much to me! It was a link between generations that were and were to come. <BR/>She was known to others and greatly respected and her name was Lidie Wimberley Hughes, of the Wimberleys "for whom the town was named", Wimberley, Texas. ( I still remember my cousins and I trying to understand how our Aunties were actually each others sisters.)<BR/><BR/>Please, please, please illustrate and publish your loving story. I want to buy one for all my sisters and all their daughters and all our grand-daughters and great-grand-daughters just being born, as 9th generation Texans. (Search: Wimberley Texas history)<BR/>It is a beautiful story and so universal and I hope this comment will publish, so you will know I think this. <BR/>I love your stories and your flowers and dogs. <BR/>From a family who has their roots up on the web. I wish so much someone would publish your story.<BR/>Thank You so much for sharing your writings and illustrations. <BR/>We totally get this, in the Texas Hill Country. Have you tried someone like University of Texas Press to publish your stories? Just a thought...........<BR/>I love reading your blog and we all love the part of the country you live and work in. I wish you many happy days of writing!<BR/>Evelyn Clydene Morris Chinetti<BR/>6th generation Texan<BR/>Great Grand-daughter of Lidie Wimberley Hughes.<BR/>Pleasant and Amanda Jackson Wimberley <BR/>Daughters of the Republic of Texas<BR/><BR/>P.S. (Has anyone out there read any of Dorothy Kerbow Wimberley's books? Maybe you could try her publisher. You will find the right Publisher.)<BR/>God be with you and bless you.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com