The hand that gives the rose

We celebrated Adrienne's birthday with a drive to Pt. Reyes where we hiked through a cow pasture, had lunch at Pt. Reyes Station, and picked out Zulugrass jewelry (the gift Adrienne wanted from the kids). Adrienne had discovered the distinctive jewelry on a previous trip to Pt. Reyes. It is simple, earth friendly and made by a company in East Kenya founded by Philip Leakey, the youngest son of paleo-anthropologists Drs. Louis and Mary Leakey.

As Adrienne and the kids were deciding between the strands of beaded zulugrass, I looked through the greeting cards -- a much nicer selection than I found in neighborhood card shops -- and was struck by this quote on the subject of giving by Hada Bejar (who I just discovered through Google was a British playwright and poet):

"The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose."