. . . "inspiration" . . .

. . . occasionally i am

{wrongfully}

accused of being creative . . .

. . . when, in reality,

i'm just occasionally lucky

in finding/borrowing/out&out stealing

other people's ideas . . .

. . . rarely do i copy them exactly . . .

. . . really they just provide inspiration . . .

{is inspiration a nice word for plagiarism?}

. . . anyway, as i was

preparing to teach

a young women lesson

on service,

i came across this little ditty . . .

. . . which reminded me of

this recently-viewed blog post . . .. . . which lead to this "tweak" . . .. . . which ended up like this . . .
. . . p.s. if you buy costco roses

in arizona

on a saturday afternoon

in august

and they are tight buds

but they look like this

↑

by sunday morning,

they are NOT going to last long . . .

. . . to my cute laurel girls ~

sorry for the half-dead flowers . . .