Have You Ever Seen a Flower?

0:00Okay, our friends, so today we will be reading a story to you called Have you ever seen a flower? The story was written by Sean Harris. It is read today by mommy and that's right. And my friends, I know you've seen a flower. I know you've seen one, but let's imagine that maybe you're from a really big city. A big city that is full of concrete and what color is concrete? Gray. Gray. Yeah. And buildings typically have our made of concrete, right? So buildings are typically quite gray. And streets are typically black or white or gray because they've got the white lines, you know. There's not a lot of color, right? And that's what we see in the picture. In the picture, it is a black and white city full of gray, different shades of gray. And it says, Have you ever seen a flower? I mean really. And in the picture, this dark road

1:08that is carrying this family away from the black and white gray city. This road is taking them into brightly colored rainbow mountains. Have you ever, I mean really seen a flower? Now the mountains are colorful. There's red and yellow and green and blue and covering the fields are flowers. Red flowers. Gorgeous red flowers. I mean way down in the clover with your face down in a flower. Can you imagine what that would be like if you were in a field full of flowers? I mean really actually see a flower and stick your nose in it. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That's what the book is saying. And in the picture, we see that

2:08a little girl with her dog. And she is crawled over and stuck her nose directly in the flower. Have you ever seen a flower using nothing but your nose? Breathe deep. What do you see? Wiendrops made of honey. The knees of a bumblebee. A fancy lady dancing babies at the Royal Jelly Jubilee. Have you ever seen a flower so deep you had to shout hello and listen for an echo just to know how deep it goes. Some flowers are really big like that. Sunflowers can be seven feet tall and they can have really really big blooms like bigger than

3:16your head. That's true. And did you ever wonder if you wandered down between the golden columns and into its corridors? Who you might meet? A deep inside of the flower we can see we can see something that's an outline of it looks like maybe a fairy. And it says who might you meet? Maybe a tiny queen. And in the picture we can see her like a bumblebee queen right or a fairy queen with a sword tonight you. Have you ever have you ever felt a flower? Do a flower petals, veins feel like the veins beneath your skin? Have you ever pricked your finger or fallen on your knee

4:19and seen the brilliant color of your life? What does that mean? Blood? Blood. It's red isn't it? Yeah and that's what this page is. Bright red. Just like the flower's petals. Mm-hmm. Life is inside you. And in the picture we can see the girl has poked herself with a thorn from one of these flowers and she's oh that hurt. She's got a little blood on her finger and she's crying. That happens when you pick up rose that's got a thorn. But friend's life is all around you it says. And sure enough it is because all around her are beautiful flowers. Now put your hands on your belly and say this is my stem. Now take a sip of water and stand very still and feel it slip and trickle all the way down to your roots.

5:27Okay those are your toes right? Do you feel yourself growing? Do you feel yourself stretching towards the sun ready to burst and bloom? And in the picture we see the girl is pretending that she is a dandelion and she's feeling herself becoming a growing part of this world. It says have you ever been a flower? I mean really been a flower and if you were would you remember? And she's imagining that she's growing up out of the ground trying to see. See I once was a flower in a school plate. My costume was a flower and last year for somebody's birthday I dressed up like a sunflower for them too. Who was that? Mine. Yeah that's right I was a

6:33sunflower for you. And do you know what friends? It is really wonderful to know that you are growing and that you are becoming something special and that you are the only one who can do the things that you are meant to do. So my friends I hope that you enjoyed today's story and this is Is it gonna say it? It will be to say it. The end. I think I can join us for another story tomorrow. Yeah.