Flowers From My Garden

<p class=ql-align-justify><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Synopsis: </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Many of these poems came from a sad place in the heart of Candice as she grew up with six other siblings for just a short time. They all began leaving one by one and she became the only one left at home. The innocence and worries of childhood left her at the age of fifteen when her father grandfather brother-in-law and then her cat all passed away! Her escapes into writing down her feelings were warranted one day when her mom read one of them sat down and cried. It was entitled Thirteen Cents a poem about her father.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The poems in this book are related to her feelings at the time. Some were initially written to someone who may have broken her heart but then the poems turned into praising the Lord instead of dwelling in the past.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Candice enjoys her garden and adds flowers in memory of loved ones whose spirits have crossed over. Hopefully readers will enjoy her rhymes relate and shed a tear.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Autobiography: </em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Candice Shipley resides in Newton County Georgia with her husband Phil and their three dogs</span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(0 29 53 1)>-</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Luna Stella and Duce. They have chickens and sheep on ten acres with a pond and a creek. This for them is a dream come true compared to the hardships they suffered through the recession of 2007. She owned and operated several beauty salons but she retired after twenty-six years.</span></p><p class=ql-align-justify><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>After healing from the surgery on her right hand she continued with her writings and paintings on canvas. With the encouragement of her husband and her literary agent she rebranded edited and republished </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Lacey's Room by Candy Momma</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>KaDee's Kitchen</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and gathered many decades of poetry together and composed the book </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Flowers From My Garden</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>.</span></p><p></p>