THE MYSTERY OF THE BLUE ROSE
At 9
years old
she had
a strange fascination
for
topics that were not necessarily considered
normal
for her tender age
Often
seeking solace and refuge inside
stories
and fantasy worlds
Conversations
with non-existent companions
or even
more strange
conversations
that went into intricate detail
and
levels of complexity
with no
one to answer back but herself
It was
the story of a little girl she read
in her mothers Readers digest collection
who was
the same age as her
that
she was particularly drawn to as a child
A story
that described
the lonely
world of a another little girl
who
would never be like the rest of her peers
Unable
to communicate
she
would never fit in
discarded,
looked upon with pity
Her
only saving grace
she was
unable to process the shocking looks of prejudice
that
came along with her affliction.
That
story stuck with the 9 year old
...little
did she realize that she could so intimately relate
But due
to her own strange ways of processing the world
she was
unable to see the correlations in behaviour
it was
simply the sad story of an unfortunate little girl
The
book has long been discarded
but the
intricate details and memory of that little girl
never
went away
She
still holds a strange connection
a
fascination
with
that other little girl
who
would never be able to live and play
like
other girls do.
Always
hanging on the periphery
unable
to engage
terrified
that others would notice her faux pars
And
never understanding why she was excluded
The title of that
article she read as a 9 year old girl was simply called
THE BLUE ROSE
Th story was written in 1974.
Th story was written in 1974.
She has been on a
life long quest to figure out the elusive
yet multi faceted
message of the blue rose
And just
yesterday...she finally figured it out
© Teresa / Divinia 30th October 2014
The author, Gerda
Klein, is an Austrian author and Holocaust
survivor.
"THE BLUE ROSE is the story of Jenny, a child with developmental
disabilities. The 2008 revised edition is in response to numerous
requests. The first edition became a Reader’s Digest feature, inspired
a film in India, musical score in Canada, and the creation of The Blue
Rose Foundation in the USA."
survivor.
"THE BLUE ROSE is the story of Jenny, a child with developmental
disabilities. The 2008 revised edition is in response to numerous
requests. The first edition became a Reader’s Digest feature, inspired
a film in India, musical score in Canada, and the creation of The Blue
Rose Foundation in the USA."
LINKS
Excerpt of
original story
Oh my gosh... am in awe and shock, today 1st April 2014, I found this beautiful movie called THE BLUE ROSE. I sat here with tears falling from my eyes at just how beautiful the story is, and how I can relate...
It's a short fils that runs for 20 minutes by a lady director called
Joclyn Rose Lyons
THE BLUE ROSE MOVIE
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