Radiant Tales: Preface

Welcome!

Butterflies, beetles, lady bugs, humming birds, bees, and caterpillars. All you who enjoy the beauty of the earth and, throughout your busy, life find time to smell the flowers. Radiant Tales will be a collection of stories and experiences that invovle fighting off bugs, standing up to the wind, growing taller, and enjoying the sunshine. All from the point of view of a little sunflower called Sunshine. (That's me!)

Sunshine is not the brightest flower in the garden, and she's not the tallest either. Hundreds of flowers, plants, and bugs live in her garden, and she watches out for each of them, hoping that they can survive until the harvest. She might not be able to do very much as a small flower, but she's there. And her friends and family know that. Some day she will grow up to be just like them.

Speaking of growing up, Sunshine has learned a lot from her past. Sometimes she will speak of foreign advendures she had when just a seedling. Since then, she has grown stronger and taller. Hey, two inches is a lot when you used to be 4' 10'', okay? She takes what she's given...and she's not as bitter as she used to be :) All that matters is that she's got her roots deep in the ground.

Roots. As one of the many essentials in life, Sunshine realises she couldn't survive without the ground she has been planted in, and her roots keep her there. Especially when morning glory (an awful plant that chokes it's victims- it looks harmless and beautiful, but it's really very decieving), weeds, and wind come, the only way she survives is because she is rooted in her spot (haha, rooted!).

Hopefully those who come along to smell the flowers and listen to the stories from Radiant Tales will smile, laugh, and feel a greater appreciation for the sunshine and radiance that grows everyday in their lives. Because Sunshine sure does.

With love and roses,

Sunshine