4-19-10
Be a sweetpea for me, will ya, honey? *
Make a point of granting a kindness to someone unexpected today, give a helping hand, fulfill a favor. It just may make his or her day. It will certainly change yours.
* I’m revealing my Southern heritage, here. I could very well have grown up thinking my name was Sweetpea, if it had been left to my maternal grandmother. I’m not always as colorful, fragile or fragrant as the moniker would suggest, but it’s one of the better ones I’ve been given.
Lana
/ April 19, 2010Love sweetpeas! Such a sweet post, I like your idea of spreading some kindness
emmajames
/ April 19, 2010Lana: Thanks! I couldn’t resist them when I saw them at the Farmers’ Market this weekend. And they truly smell heavenly.
whollyjeanne
/ April 19, 2010your SOUTHERN HERITAGE??? are you kidding me? as in MY southern? okay. that’s going on The List Of Things Emma And I Are Going To Talk About One Fine Day. my mother called me sweetpea when i was a kid. square peg karen calls me sweetpea now, and it always makes me smile.
.-= whollyjeanne´s last blog ..different branches? trees? forests? =-.
emmajames
/ April 20, 2010Jeanne: Well, you probably wouldn’t think it was the South. It’s only Texas. But to the world in which I now live, it is most definitely The South.
Which explains many things, including my unending love of grits and fried okra.
verybadcat
/ April 21, 2010i missed this directive, but i thought you would like to know that my seatmate on the last leg of my flight gifted me a cheesy paperback romance to bide the time. so, if i didn’t perform a random act of kindness, i certainly was the recipient of such…
.-= verybadcat´s last blog ..Zen and the Art of Standby Travel =-.
emmajames
/ April 21, 2010VBC: I love when things like that happen! Kudos to you
Ally
/ April 22, 2010Oh, I adore sweetpeas. I like to call people sweetpeas too and I’m not even from the South.
.-= Ally´s last blog ..This or That? Warm Weather Edition =-.
emmajames
/ April 23, 2010Ally: It’s such a charming nickname, completely inoffensive. Though now, watch, someone will go and actually NAME their kid that, without realizing it should remain in the nickname category ONLY.