It's time for another planted blog post. This will be the final one for 2023. As you know this month, marked one year since Bloom with Brenda began. I want to thank my special guest contributor and companion, Trevor aka T Man, for once again bringing a heartfelt tale. 💛🦮❤️ This time I will be walking alone in my figurative garden. As you know, this blog was created in memory of my mother. She loved her garden so much. I never understood as a child, why that was so important to her. Now as a grown woman, I totally get it. My writings have a special meaning for me. It's something that is created before my very eyes, watching the words flow across the page, line by line. My mother described my first blogs much the same way. She said; "I didn't know you could write like that, it just flows." My response; "I didn't know I could either." I guess in some small way, I found my love of writing, much like my mother loved her garden. Some of what I write and ...

It's Trevor aka T Man with another planted blog post. This one is significant, as this marks the 1st Blogiversary of Bloom with Brenda. Brenda asked me to once again, be her guest contributor. It makes sense, because this month marks 13 years that I have been her companion. Now you know where the title comes from. Brenda's late mother told her, that I would be that companion for years. This blog was created in memory of Brenda's mother and part of that promise to live her life. Every day, she strives to keep that promise. I think that is beautiful!  It can be lonely at times, even in our gardens of life. Brenda wants me to bring out here, that friendships and  companionship, are vital in navigating and surviving in this thing called LIFE. There are many types of friendships. At the end of this planted blog post, her poem 'Connections' will be shared. It encompasses different kinds of friendships. Brenda wants me to concentrate on her close-knit circle of friends, fo...