Calendar Girls

Our chum Sandy, shared a quote from the film Calendar Girls that we just had to share with all of you.  When you read it you will know why.Here is that sweet and lovely quote we found so very meaningful:

“The flowers of Yorkshire are like the women of Yorkshire.  Every stage of their growth has it’s own beauty, but the last phase is always the most glorious.  Then very quickly they all go to seed.  Which make it ironic my favorite flower isn’t even indigenous to the British Isles, let alone Yorkshire.  I don’t think there’s anything on this planet that more trumpets life than the sunflower.  For that’s because of the reason behind its name. Not because it looks like the sun, but because it follows the sun.  During the course of the day, the head tracks the journey of the sun across the sky.  A satellite dish for sunshine. Wherever light is, no matter how weak, these flowers will find it. And that’s such an admirable thing. And such a lesson in life.”

The film is based on a true story of a group of English women and is a movie that most of you would no doubt find very enjoyable.  Here is the film’s synopsis:

“Calendar Girls is about the women of the Rylstone Women’s Institute in North Yorkshire. This Women’s Group produces a calendar each year based around scenes of the Yorkshire dales. In 1999, one of the ladies husbands became ill with leukemia.  Unfortunately, he didn’t pull through and in order to raise funds for Leukemia research the women decided to make an alternative calendar of themselves engaged in the activities that the women of their club were known for doing but with a twist…they were all  in the nude.  The hope was to sell a few hundred copies around their villages. This calendar in fact became a worldwide sensation, out-selling even those of Britney Spears and Cindy Crawford.”

The lovely quote we shared above was written by the gentleman who eventually passed away from leukemia, the husband of one of the Calendar Girls, the one who started it all.  What a beautiful idea that our last phase as women might just be, like the flowers, our most glorious!  And what a wonderful attitude he had about life even in the face of such struggle.  It is a lesson for us all to keep looking towards the light, towards the good, ultimately towards God.  If we do, we are sure to have lives filled to the brim and overflowing with love, joy and such rich abundance!