Tuesday, September 2, 2003

Rosewood Tree

We've only known Rosewood Tree for about four months.  He is married to Bubbling Stream.

He and Bubbling Stream allowed me to stay at their home for about ten days.  I found Rosewood Tree to be a very giving, but busy person.  He works full time in the beauty industry as a consultant, he has invested in a remodeling project, and he coaches/plays soccer.  This is in addition to taking care of their home and often entertaining family and friends.  They live on a beautiful acre of land off a lake in a very pretty four bedroom, wood stained cottage. 

Rosewood Tree was first concerned with my being able to understand his English.  Originally, his home was in Costa Rica, but he had just earned his United States citizenship.  Everyone is very proud of him! 

Rosewood Tree is a natural born story teller.  One story was of his younger days.  There was a class project to be helping care for bees.  One day the bees became angry and swarmed around the small group of students.  The kids made it to the safety of a small screened shed, but the teacher fell behind the group.  As it happened, the kids out of fear of the bees wouldn't take responsibility for the teacher.  Rosewood Tree tried to explain the logic of their decision, but he was much teased by Bubbling Stream for not seeing the the teacher's dilema.  We all laughed as it became more evident that neither side could win!

Many evenings were spent on their front porch drinking wine coolers and the mornings were spent around their cozy kitchen table.  Once I came into the kitchen to find the happy couple dancing to embracing Latin music.  In their marriage, they had long since developed means to evenly splitting life's responsibilities.  One could imagine that this left much time for merriment!   

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