{"id":11011,"date":"2018-05-25T07:32:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-25T12:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nearariver.com\/?p=11011"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:23:09","slug":"mark-twain-near-a-river-bj-rae-encouraging-words-eagle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/mark-twain-near-a-river-bj-rae-encouraging-words-eagle\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Twain Was Right"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mark Twain was right about many things, but particularly about this topic.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Lavender is my favorite flower and scent.\u00a0 After my surgeries, I insisted on having the smell of lavender near me because pain makes me feel tenser and the smell of lavender has the opposite effect. Recently I redecorated two bathrooms in our home with lavender plants, decorations, and scent. I also keep a small tin of lavender balm on my nightstand to help me relax at night so I can fall asleep faster and more deeply.<\/p>\n

Today I was looking for quotes about lavender, and Google gave me this one:<\/p>\n

\u201cForgiveness is the smell that lavender gives out when you tread on it.\u201d
\n\u2013Mark Twain<\/p>\n

I completely agree with Mark Twain about this, because forgiveness and the scent of lavender have much in common.<\/p>\n

Forgiveness can turn even mistakes and wrongs into something positive. And if forgiveness had a scent, the soothing fragrance of lavender filling the air seems like a wonderful and poetic way to describe it.<\/p>\n

Like the smell of lavender, forgiveness encourages relaxation.\u00a0 When we relax, we can think clearly and solve problems and move forward with our lives much more easily.\u00a0 Relaxation goes hand in hand with healing and positivity.<\/p>\n

Yes, Mark Twain was wise to compare forgiveness to the smell that lavender gives off when stepped on.<\/p>\n

Don’t you agree that the world would be a much better place if every person let forgiveness give out the smell of lavender in his life?<\/p>\n

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Mark Twain was right about many things, but particularly about this topic. Lavender is my favorite flower and scent.\u00a0 After my surgeries, I insisted on having the smell of lavender near me because pain makes me feel tenser and the Read more…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1862,133],"tags":[1588,77,1271,1269,1328,1334,1270,1329,1337,1714,1332,1321,12,1331,1330,1320,1273,1322,1302,1274,1323,1325,1326,1324,19,1275,1319,1318,716,107,1327,1336,1335,1268,1861,1859,1863,1333,297,1860,1299],"class_list":["post-11011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-problems-near-a-river-bj-rae-encouraging-words-eagle","category-successful-bj-rae","tag-common-core-eagle-reading-book","tag-bj-rae","tag-books-for-children","tag-books-for-kids","tag-child-eagle-reading-book","tag-childrens-book","tag-childrens-books","tag-childrens-eagle-reading-book","tag-childrens-reading-book","tag-common-core-book","tag-common-core-reading-book","tag-core-reading-book","tag-eagle","tag-eagle-book-for-child","tag-eagle-child-book","tag-eagle-children-book","tag-eagle-childrens-book","tag-eagle-core-reading-book","tag-eagle-kid-book","tag-eagle-kids-book","tag-eagle-reading-book","tag-eagle-reading-book-for-child","tag-eagle-reading-book-for-children","tag-eagle-reading-book-for-kids","tag-encouragement","tag-encouraging","tag-encouraging-childrens-book","tag-encouraging-kids-book","tag-encouraging-words","tag-forgiveness","tag-kid-eagle-reading-book","tag-kid-reading-book","tag-kids-book","tag-kids-books","tag-lavender","tag-mark-twain","tag-mark-twain-quote","tag-reading-book","tag-soar-like-an-eagle","tag-the-smell-of-lavender","tag-words-of-encouragement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11011"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21206,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions\/21206"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bobbiejrae.com\/nearariver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}