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Sunflower Summer

I am growing a Sunflower this year.  A friend gifted me with a few sunflower seeds recently, so I am excited to see what comes of it.
Some of you may haved noticed that I have sunflowers in the background of my website . . . well, there is a reason for that.

Sunflowers are a special symbol for Spiritualists: “As the Sunflower turns it’s face to the light of the sun --- so let Spiritualism turn the face of humanity to the Light of Truth”. In 1928 the Sunflower was adopted as the official badge of International Spiritualism at the conference for the International Federation of Spiritualism.

And here's a bit more history as it relates to Lily Dale ... in 1898 Lily Dale had it’s own newspaper, The Sunflower. The editor of the newspaper was William Bach, who with his wife Evielena erected the Sunflower Pagoda.  The Pagoda sold books, took subscriptions to Spiritualist publications, and sold supplies such as stationery, ice cream, candy, soft drinks, novelties and cigars. It served the summer residents and visitors in this manner for 49 years. Since then, it has continued to function in many ways during the Camp season and is currently being used as cafe.

But there's more . . . my house here in Lily Dale had an incarnation as a guest house and it was called (you guessed it) The Sunflower.

So this is my Sunflower Summer - a summer to honor the Light of Truth and Spiritualism in this way.  And I am looking forward to seeing the beauty of those flowers each time I return home.  Sunny blessings to you all!
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