Paid a visit recently to my very dear mother's grave. My siblings and I made sure to lay a bouquet of Tiger Lilies with small white aster flowers, the former being the flowers she loved the most. If one's personality were to be judged by the kind of flowers one loves, it would be confusing. The Tiger Lily signifies wealth and pride, so say many floral dictionaries. Pride my mom was never known for. Wealth she certainly did not have. But we, her children take pride in the fact that we had a mother such as her who was loving, gentle, kind; who did the best she could do for us, and never gave us any reason to be ashamed for such was her integrity, compassion, and benevolence towards others.
Wealth. Such is what we have in our hearts as we feel blessed to have had her in our lives.
