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Water Lily's Spirit -Shirley's 249th Friendly Greeting -April 11,2010

Hi,Dear Friends

How are you? Have you had a good week? Are you enjoying your weekend?

This is just a short note to say "Hello" to you.

For my eyes cannot see clear even though I have changed 2 pairs of new glasses. It is very difficult for me to write on the computer. So, instead of writing a letter as usual, I just send the two paintings that I have created this week and a piece of music that I have created in 2006 to you and hope to bring you a smile.

In the three works that I have sent you via the links below, two of them are about water lilies.

Water lily is one of Chinese favorite flowers.

We love water lily because she grows up from the filthy mud without being polluted and keeps blossoming pure and clean flowers; she has been washed by the water but still keeps her natural and beautiful quality; her stem is empty and always wants to learn something new, she stands there straightly and uprightly with her fragrance far and wide. People can enjoy the sight of her beauty from far away place, but, they can never be near to play her with any disrespectful style...

Except the positive spirit of water lily, we also love her and respect her for all of the things on her body -- flower, lotus pod, leaves, and lotus root, every thing not only brings people enjoyment, but also can be a tea, Chinese transitional medicine or food, useful, helpful and services for the human society...

The spirit of water lily has changed to be one of the important moral rules in Chinese cultures for several thousand years, as an excellent personality of the gentlemen to be respected and learned generation by generation...

In the management field, to keep the spirit of water lily ? no mater live in any complex environment; to keep the clean and pure, without being polluted have become the baseline of the professional ethics of a manager.

Do you like water lily and her quality? Do you agree with my comments on water lily?

Shirley Created Art 503 - Chinese Xieyi -280: Summer - April 10, 2010

Shirley Created Art 502 - Chinese Xieyi -279: Water Lily Practice - April 8, 2010

Shirley Created Music For Chinese Classical Poem--039: Xiao Chi -- Little Pool-July 23, 2006

I am just a learner on art of painting, music and English, to work on the web site in my free time. I would really like to do a few things with what I have learned to make this little web site to be an Electronic Bridge of Culture Exchange, Chinese Language Learning & Friendship making. To help the others while to improve myself.

I would like to appreciate your understanding, directions, supports and hope to get your friendly direction and help.

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, you are welcome to write to shirley@ebridge.cn or shirley004@yahoo.com, or to publish your opinions in the forum.

Shirley Yiping Zhang
Sun.,April 11, 2010

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