article_snippet: I was drawing my flowers brown and my oceans black and skies were purple.
article_snippet: When I smell roses I think of my mother.
article_snippet: When I was a little boy we had a rosebush in the back yard and a rosebush in the back yard was yellow with red tips.
article_snippet: And I still see a rosebush in the back yard today and I think ‘a rosebush in the back yard’s so beautiful’.
article_snippet: But I think ‘what was I not seeing in that rose’.
article_snippet: If I were to see that rose and there were other colours there
article_snippet: I would think that was kind of poetic.
article_snippet: On the first day of school my mother would take me to the back yard and my mother would cut me a rose to give to my teacher.
article_snippet: What if saw that rose and I saw all these colours that I never saw before?
article_snippet: I think it would be in a way like my mother was speaking again to me.