Greeting Card: Cover:To Let You Know I'm Thinking Of You Inside: Pansies always stand for thoughts – At least that's what folks say, so this just comes to show my thoughts are there with you today.
Quoted from Mental_floss.com - "Back when it debuted for Mother’s Day in 1939, kids plunked down a hard-earned nickel for the card as an expression of their love. More than seven decades later, you can still walk into a Hallmark store and buy the Pansy Card for a mere 99 cents. The company didn’t start tracking sales for individual cards until 1942, but in the years since, customers have bought more than 30 million Pansies."
The greeting card
2013: A Spring Surprise
Ornament Details artists: Nina Aube and Jim Kemme
This little ornament is based on a watercolor done by longtime Hallmark artist Mary Hamilton. The long-running Christmas ornament series "Mary's Angels" is also part of Mary's legacy.
What a lovely expression of the newness of Spring this ornament shows. The famous poem below by Gerard Manley Hopkins states it best:
God’s Grandeur (1918) The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil; And wears man’s smudge and shares man’s smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod.
And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off the black West went Oh, morning, at the brown brink eastward, springs-- Because the Holy Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings.
Nature is never spent; those are comforting words. There is always renewal, always another morning, despite the bleary, smeary smudge and smell of toil. In the words of Julian of Norwich, the world continues to exist because God wills it to. And he wills it to continue because he loves it.
